Age Quote by Chris Hedges

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and…

— Dar Williams

“It is only when you understand the extent to which you have been traumatized—even if outside of your awareness—that you can effectively prepare for…

— Carolyn Baker

I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of…

— Niall Ferguson

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“In truth, neither the narrative of oppression and exploitation nor that of ‘the White Man’s burden’ completely matches the facts. The European empires did…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption…

— Andrew Marr

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward W. Said

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which…

— James A. Baldwin

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open…

— H. G. Wells

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward W. Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward Said