Army Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

— Voltaire

An empire is an immense egotism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again write poems…

— Hermann Hesse

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working…

— Karl Marx

“Throughout the world, more and more entrepreneurs, engineers, experts, scholars, lawyers and managers are called to join the empire. They must ponder whether to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the…

— Andrew Lang

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

— Libba Bray

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German…

— Karl Marx

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

— Noam Chomsky

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

— George William Curtis

For me, I do not wish to build an empire.

— Eric Ripert