Empire Quote by James Luceno

“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

“Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.”

— Sven Beckert

“only when the weak have decent reasons to defend the system that reproduces their subservience does the empire of the powerful”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“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

“that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces”

— Tom Holland

“An empire long united, must divide; an empire long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been, and thus it will always be.”

— Tim Wu

“An empire that could have stood sound under a single sovereign was wrecked through being run by sundry rulers.”

— Andrew Chugg

“When the conquests stopped, the empire moved into a steady state or, more bluntly, it stagnated.”

— Edward A. Hudson

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

“The Empire is a force unprecedented in any age, poised to end history itself. No one should confront it alone.”

— Alexander Freed

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

“We wanted to protect some planets that the Empire wanted to destroy. Not outright, not even the Empire’s that evil.”

— Beth Revis