1900 Quote by J.A. Hobson

“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 strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

— Ronald Syme

“The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.”

— J. M. Coetzee

“The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos,…

— Helder Camara

“The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields.…

— Raymond E. Feist

“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

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Stay up building your empire if you must, cut all negative ties if you must, sacrifice some things if you must, but above all,…

— Kabelo Mabona

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

“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

“When your empire grows out of soil fertilized with the blood of a people, it must sustain its power with their continued bloodshed.”

— Luvvie Ajayi