Art Quote by William Blake

An empire is an immense egotism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How is the Empire?

— King George V

“But Empire building also bears the seeds of its own destruction. The closer a state comes to the ultimate goal of world domination and…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

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

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

My mind to me an empire is.

— Robert Southwell

“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

“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.”

— Robert Harris

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

— Anonymous

“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