Empires Quote by Robert D. Kaplan Download Open image “If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.” — Robert D. Kaplan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires History Long Looks
The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place. — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down,… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who followed the… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy in larger… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory.… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image