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“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
― Tacitus

“Well, normally I鈥檓 against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.鈥� 鈥� Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)”
― Pete Seeger

“All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, New York

“All empires fall, eventually.鈥�
鈥淏ut why? It鈥檚 not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.[鈥漖”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“In summer the empire of insects spreads.”
― Adam Zagajewski

“Gods dream of empires, but devils build them.”
― Jessica Cluess, House of Dragons

“One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die.”
― Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

“A royal seal for her and a wide-open starscape for me. Nothing between me and the rest of the galaxy but time and cruiser fuel. I raise my glass high and drink it all down. That鈥檚 a toast I can get behind.”
― Rebecca Coffindaffer, Crownchasers

“The temples of empires come tumbling down, the names of the mighty forgotten. Here is a parable: power never lasts.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

“Empires aren't built in a day. But in the case of Erebus they can disappear in one.”
― Jesse R. Page

“We think of Rome as an empire in a way that we do not use for other nations. The others are pretenders. Rome stands alone. Throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Near East its wreckage still draws the traveler and speaks a message that is haunting: this was imperial, this was lasting, this is gone.”
― James Salter, There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter

“Nations that were great empires never forget that fact, and they often have a malleable, exaggerated sense of their glory days and a story about why they are no longer an empire 鈥� a combustible blend of pride in an idealized past, grievance over greatness lost or stolen, and readiness to be inspired (less flatteringly, vulnerability to manipulation) by effective politicians.”
― Soner 脟a臒aptay, The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey

“In Namir's experience, what the Galactic Empire didn't name to inspire terror - its stormtrooper legions, its Star Destroyer battleships - it tried to render as drab as possible.”
― Alexander Freed, Twilight Company

“I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“These days there is a tendency to regard American democracy as the model for all the world's democracies, and in some ways this is true. The seeds of democracy may have been sown in ancient Greece, but it is in American soil that they sprouted and flourished to achieve their full potential. Yet precisely for this reason, only in America is American democracy possible; it cannot be isolated from American traditions and values.”
― Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“Republic, Empire鈥� different name, all the same people.”
― Alexander Freed

“Times goin' change again an' things too, and that great British Empire goin' change too, 'cause time ain't got nothin' to do with these empires. God don't like ugly, an' whenever these big great empires starts to get ugly with the thing they does the Almighty puts His hands down once an' for all. He tell them without talkin', fellows, you had your day. (p.101)”
― George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin

“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once belived they were eternal.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The status of domestic dependent nation that would be granted Native Hawaiians through a process of federal recognition does not recognize the kingdom's history of sovereign existence or take into account the unjust occupation or overthrow of the monarch inflicted by the U.S. government. At the same time, relying on presently existing international law regarding Indigenous Peoples also has the limitation that in tis present state such law still gives priority to existing nation-states and puts the preexisting rights of Indigenous People as nations on a back burner.”
― J. K膿haulani Kauanui, Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism

“He will go to sea, where there are no emperor, no wars.”
― Ronald Wright, The Gold Eaters

“This latest shift didn鈥檛 really matter all that much: Republic, Empire, it was six to one, half a dozen to the other. It meant little to the average person struggling to make a life. Either form of government could make the mag-levs run on time, and both stepped on individual rights far more than they should. As far as Atour was concerned, the best government was that which governed least. Something a step or two above anarchy would be ideal.
Now there was a power-hungry Emperor running things. Both history and personal experience had taught Atour that in as little as a few years, or as much as a few centuries, there would come evolution - or revolution - and this, too, would pass. The new rulers would start out full of promise and hope and good intentions, and gradually settle into mediocrity. A benevolent but inept king was as bad as a despot.”
― Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Death Star

“Empires have a tendency to crumble, and sometimes through no fault of their own. Emperors get buried under the rubble.”
― Sarp Duyar, The City of Crescent

“The categorization and separation of native peoples was a common tactic for maintaining colonial control over territories whose national boundaries had been arbitrarily drawn with little consideration for the ethnic, cultural, or religious makeup of the local inhabitants. The French went to great lengths to cultivate class divisions in Algeria, the Belgians promoted tribal factionalism in Rwanda, and the British fostered sectarian schisms in Iraq... when the colonists were finally expelled from these manufactured states, they left behind not only economic and political turmoil, but deeply divided populations with little common ground on which to construct a national identity.”
― Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“The partition of India was not simply the result of an internal feud between Muslims and Hindus. Nor was it an isolated event. Indonesia's numerous secessionists movements, the bloody border disputes between Morocco and Algeria, the fifty-year civil war in Sudan between Arab northerners and Black African southerners, the partitioning of Palestine and the resulting cycle of violence, the warring ethnic factions in Iraq, and the genocide of nearly a million Tutsis at the hands of the Hutus in Rwanda, to name but a handful of cases, have all been in considerable measure a result of the decolonization process.”
― Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“Under the right circumstances, no one in the galaxy is more powerful than a minor bureaucrat in the right place.”
― Greg Pak, Star Wars Darth Vader #42

“Ashoka's political and moral philosophy, as he expressed it in his imperial inscriptions, initiated a tradition of religious tolerance, non-violent debate and a commitment to the idea of happiness which has animated Indian political philosophy ever since. But - and it's a big but - his benevolent empire scarcely outlived him. And that leaves us with the uncomfortable question of whether such high ideals can survive the realities of political power. Nevertheless, this was a ruler who really did change the way that his subjects and their successors thought.”
― Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects

“If you had asked the rulers of history's greatest empires鈥攖he Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the British Empire, and the Ottoman Empire鈥攁 decade before their fall where they envisioned their realms ten years hence, they would have spoken of grand futures and the vast endeavors still awaiting them.”
― Jag DeSaint

“The greatest gift of a collapsing empire is the people will no longer have an option for change.”
― Sharky Rich

“Colonial settlers, made the natives second-class citizens, they stole everything they had even their freedom to be natives, and if they resisted they were brutalized by all kinds of torture, some were executed to put fear into other natives, by the time they were finished the natives had new religions new language new laws and new names how can we be proud of any empire in history for all the crimes they have committed against humanity, woman and children and old men till the natives, were brutalized into submission it鈥檚 a shameful history on the part of all empires, that have come and gone, from history, is this what we are supposed to be proud of? Count me out”
― Kenan Hudaverdi

“No empire can outrun the repercussions of its aggression; the seeds of hostility always yield a harvest of reckoning.”
― pierre lagrenat