Empires
“ACKBAR – O knavery Most vile, O trick of Empire’s basest wit. A snare, a ruse, a ploy: and we the fools. What great deception hath been plied today – O rebels, do you hear? Fie, ’tis a trap!”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Acceptance, Empires, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fools, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Trick
“LEIA Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? Does Empire shrink for want of taller troops? The Empire’s evil ways, I’ll grant, are grand, But must its soldiers want for fear of height?”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Acceptance, Art, Empires, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Taller, Want
Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.
Author: Gad SaadTopics: Empires, Excess, Famous, Imperial Collapse, Imperial Corruption
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than ‘the gang in possession,’ and its days are numbered.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Belief, Empires, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Legal, Men, Rulers, True strength, Truthful
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through usually a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser as a rule nominally independent power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.
Author: Iain BanksTopics: Empires, Famous, Meaningful, Society
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
Author: Nicki MinajTopics: Beginning, Business, Empires, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Birth, Empires, External Powers, Famous, Fate, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Nations, Reproduction