The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.' — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Churchill was a big fat cannibal, Leopold was an ugly deadly virus, Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Happy Independence Day to Pakistan! On this day sixty-six years ago the country gained sovereignty from the British Empire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha Copy Share Image
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back. “Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
A nationally known advertising man wrote me theother day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each… — George VI Copy Share Image
The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this… — John Burgoyne Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
![“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.’ I cannot presume to write on behalf of…” quote by Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01a/shashi-tharoor-2698_british-empire_w-hen-we-kill-people-a-british-sea-capta_1208063.jpg)
