Empire Quote by Ann Laura Stoler

An empire is an immense egotism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be exceptional amongst exceptional people.”

— Wesam Fawzi

“Exceptionalism means that you do things that are very, very important and grand. Showing a simple act of kindness to another person is all…

— Art Rios

American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's…

— Gerald Celente

America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be…

— Álvaro de Campos

“What I mean to say is that in a highly exceptional reality [...] the non-exceptional can, for convenience sake, be written off as paradoxically exceptional.”

— Haruki Murakami

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

— Ben Fountain

“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.”

— Corey Taylor

“The dismantling of privilege requires the disavowal of any pretense of exceptionalism. Lamentations”

— Soong-Chan Rah

American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country.…

— Rush Limbaugh

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

— Ron Fournier