#empires

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#car #continue #control #countries #destruction

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

— Joseph Chamberlain

#away #come #day #empires #long

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. ↗

— Paul Harris

#gates #ideas

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#been #changed #doers #empires #established

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bring #empires #eras #match #me

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. ↗

— William Watson

#disappear #dissolve #empires #passes #song

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. ↗

— Sid Meier

#age #empires #games #i #i love

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death