Booty Quote by Vladimir Lenin

Great power wars are very costly and dangerous, causing massive loss of life and worldwide turmoil, and possibly spreading to involve other countries.

— John Mearsheimer

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

— Samora Machel

“The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be…

— Isaac Asimov

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great…

— Anonymous

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

— Hannah Arendt

Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat…

— Che Guevara

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all…

— Winston Churchill

“It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption…

— Andrew Marr

I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.

— Kevin Macdonald

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

— Nikita Khrushchev

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