Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power.

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.

The Arrogance of Power

Hegemony mean[t] that [Athens] organized and directed their combined efforts without securing permanent political power over the other[s].

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

This [American] empire will not last. No empire does. If empires lasted, the whole world would be speaking ancient Persian today.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.