Government Quote by Frank Herbert

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost…

— Frank Herbert

“But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as…

— Paul Kriwaczek

“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

“Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation.…

— Henry Kissinger

“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

“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

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

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

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”

— Pierce Brown

“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.”

— Robert Harris

“vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world”

— Anthony Everitt

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

— Anonymous