154 Quotes About Empires


  • Author Linus Torvalds
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    I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

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  • Author Robert Trout
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    Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

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  • Author Robert Trout
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    The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

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  • Author Thucydides
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    I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...

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  • Author George Washington
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    [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

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