Empires Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“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

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

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

— Libba Bray

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

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

— Pericles

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the…

— John Cusack

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

“And do not imagine that what we are fighting for is simply the question of freedom or slavery: there is also involved the loss…

— Thucydides

“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

“Through the sacrifice of each martyr, the power of the Roman Empire became increasingly weakened until it completely collapsed. This was certainly spiritual warfare…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement… Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

— Philip K. Dick