British empire Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“he believed with all his heart that Leopold’s system of rule constituted a unique form of evil. People in England’s ruling circles, therefore, could…

— Adam Hochschild

“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest…

— Adam Hochschild

“...every once in a while, a single person arises without whom everything would be different. Such a man was Churchill. After having single-handedly saved…

— Charles Krauthammer

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

“...only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability. Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable--dark, impoverished, tortured.”

— Charles Krauthammer

“He couldn't drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn't wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to rebut their…

— Monte Reel

“Everyone, he knew for a fact, was populated by billions of microbes, and not simply the flora in their digestive tracts. People played host…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was…

— James T. Farrell

“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.” —Adolf Hitler”

— Hourly History

“The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as…

— Niall Ferguson

“Winston Churchill once said, 'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

— Michele G. Miller

“But Milošević, like Rasputin, refused to die, even as Tony Blair continued his miraculous pilgrim’s progress in search of bigger beasts to bag.”

— John Farebrother