Fall of Empires Quotes

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

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

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

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

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

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.