Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
Erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, i...
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark.
All great empires die from within.
All empires fall, eventually. But why? It’s 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...