Gad Saad Quotes

It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

The Turkish Empire has just committed suicide.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Besotted with ambition, empires in our age have betrayed an astonishing propensity for self-inflicted wounds…. Of the dangers that threaten a Great Power, the most insidious come from within.

The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

These different blocs in the Turkish Empire...always conspired against Turkey; because of the hostility of these native peoples, Turkey has lost province after province - Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Egypt, and Tripoli. In this way, the Turkish Empire has dwindled almost to nothing.