Quotes of: American-empire Keyword

The Islamic State or The State of Islam are the titles under which ISIS and the like are committing their evil deeds and legalizing their crimes. Oddly, there are no such titles through the history of political Islam; we have heard of an Omayyad Empi...

Dismantling ISIS

To say that the humanities can be a path to truth itself is to challenge one of our most closely held beliefs. We live not only in a scientific world, but also in a scientistic one: a world that thinks that science - empirical, objective, quantifiabl...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or la...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don't want to pay the price. Economically, Americans want the growth po...

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

In the end, family is all we have, my dear. You’ll do well to remember that.

When Empires Fall

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

Pat Robertson

Isn't it time to stop waiting for a partner with an already built empire and start looking for an ambitious partner to build an empire with?

Edmond Mbiaka

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Joseph Barbera

Darth Vader: All too easy.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[On the asteroid] Princess Leia: I have a bad feeling about this...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader: Bring my shuttle.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Peter Jennings

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, an...

Jorge Luis Borges

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other genera...

Against Empire

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Ro...

Paul Wolfowitz

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever...

Rick Atkinson

Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.

Glenn Greenwald

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

In Empires and Embraces

A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.

In Empires and Embraces

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians