empires

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand__ relation which, as an English economist says, hovers over the earth like the fate of the ancients, and with invisible hand allots fortune and misfortune to men, sets up empires and overthrows empires, causes nations to rise and to disappear__hile with the abolition of the basis of private property, with the communistic regulation of production (and implicit in this, the destruction of the alien relation between men and what they themselves produce), the power of the relation of supply and demand is dissolved into nothing, and men get exchange, production, the mode of their mutual relation, under their own control again?

All empires fall, eventually._ __ut why? It__ 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.[__

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Well, normally I__ 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._ _ Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

All great empires die from within.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom

erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries__merica with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.