QUOTE A DAY - Sept. 25, 2012
Greetings fellow quote lovers:Today we will take a look at what some interesting people have said about EMPIRE over the years. Hope you enjoy.
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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
--Aristotle
An empire is an immense egotism.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
--Han Suyin, Eurasian author and physician
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
--Joseph Conrad
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
--Publius Cornelius Tacitus
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
ANSWER: Seneca
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