Empire Downfall Quotes

A war between Austria and Russia would end either with the overthrow of the Romanovs or with the overthrow of the Hapsburgs—or perhaps the overthrow of both.

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

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

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

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.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.