Army Quote by Daniel Berrigan

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and…

— Daniel Berrigan

“The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and…

— Tariq Ali

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 Said

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the…

— Felix Dennis

“Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“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 nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly…

— Abhijit Banerjee

“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

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is…

— Philip K. Dick