Aspect Quote by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Any book on empire will omit, by necessity, vast tracts of the imperial experience, and so critics can easily find facts and details to…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

An empire is an immense egotism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not…

— William Blake

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

— Alexander Freed

“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

“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

How is the Empire?

— King George V

“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of…

— J.M. Coetzee

My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of empire is…

— David Olusoga

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

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