Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.
The history of empires is the history of human misery.
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?
Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
An empire is an immense egotism.
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.
I have my fashion empire to build.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.
After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.