Hamid Dabashi Quotes

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.

When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

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

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

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.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

The American empire should be destroyed.

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

When two giants meet with each other, when there is too little room for them on the world's surface, they try to measure their strength in order to decide by war the debatable question of hegemony.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

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

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power.

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

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.

There must … be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.

This concord should be as profound as our empires are great, for we know that no other state will ever appear to rival our empires.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.