Been Quote by Pericles

“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

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

— Publilius Syrus

“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

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

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

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

— John Rzeznik

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

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing…

— John Perkins

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

How is the Empire?

— King George V

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

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very…

— Sienna Miller