Michael Douglas Quotes

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

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

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power.

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

The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

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

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

When two countries are connected together, like England and her colonies, without being incorporated, the one must necessarily govern; the greater must rule the less; but so rule it, as not to contradict the fundamental principles that are common to both.