{"quotes":[{"text":"The mind is an empire unto itself.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["consciousness","empire","mind","mind-power"],"id":12038,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"},{"text":"Since its sudden birth the city had expanded, swallowing up acre upon acre of the surrounding grasslands and drawing thousands into its domain. Hardly built on the most advantageous ground, miles from the open waters, decades from the mines at the mountain summits, it yet remained the only settlement of note on the isle. This sprawling mass of a city, once a compact kingdom, was now the keystone of the Castilian Empire.","author":"R.D. Shanks","tags":["castle","city","description","empire","horizon","setting"],"id":17229,"author_id":"R.D.+Shanks"},{"text":"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","capitalism","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","capitalists","censorship","corporate-gain","corrupt","corruption","defunct","democracy","democratic","dysfunctional","empire","government","government-corruption","greed","greed-corruption","greedy","humanity","hypocrisy","interests","justice","leadership","money","nation","not-working","people","plutocracy","policies","profit","profit-drive","profitability","profits","rulership","social-system","social-systems","society","system","truth"],"id":37848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.","author":"Edward Everett","tags":["said","italy","empire "],"id":38090,"author_id":"Edward+Everett"},{"text":"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["empire","foundation","science-fiction"],"id":46099,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.","author":"Edward Said","tags":["civilization","death","democracy","destruction","empire","enlighten","exceptionalism","force","imperialism","intellectuals","misery","mission","mission-civilizatrice"],"id":46157,"author_id":"Edward+Said"},{"text":"Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["business","creativity","dream","dreamer","empire","goal-setting","goals","greatness","imagination","leader","leadership","life-lesson","life-lessons","life","life","life-and-sayings","mind","mind","motivation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","planning","success","thought","wisdom","wisdom","wise-man","wise","wise","wise-wise-words","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":50176,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Mapidéré was but one man-and indeed, judging by rumors of his decrepit state near death, a weak, sickly man-but his creation, the empire, had taken on a life of its own. Killing the emperor would not have been enough. We have to kill the empire.","author":"Ken Liu","tags":["empire","revolution"],"id":52294,"author_id":"Ken+Liu"},{"text":". . . 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, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["cartography","empire","geography","space","trippy"],"id":52890,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.","author":"Lyndon B. Johnson","tags":["purpose","vietnam","empire "],"id":54583,"author_id":"Lyndon+B.+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}