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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

— John Perkins

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

— Ben Carson

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

— Pericles

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

— Robert D. Kaplan

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

— Nicki Minaj

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

— Tom Wolfe

For me, I do not wish to build an empire.

— Eric Ripert

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

— Richard Flanagan

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

— Al Stewart

✗Opposing Perspectives

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

— Felix Dennis

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

— Paul Verlaine