British Empire Quotes

“Murder calls were never welcome, but this one had a small silver lining.it was going to get Merlin out of a sticky predicament.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

“New York. Anton Meyer’s wife had just gone to New Jersey to stay with her sister for a couple of days. For the first time in a while, his day hadn’t ended in an argument and he’d been able to enjoy a good night’s sleep. It was 10 in the morning and Meyer had already dealt efficiently with most of the files on his desk. He had taken a moment to congratulate himself on this when Maurice Kramer appeared at his door. “Daydreaming again, Meyer?” Kramer’s beady eyes glared meanly at him.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I know that the empire on which the sun never sets, is still alive. It never died. It continued to exist, but in a different shape, its language, English, which has become the global language.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)”
― Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by an invitation from Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the annual maneuvers of the Imperial German Army, held at Breslau. The Kaiser was 'resplendent in the uniform of the White Silesian Cuirassiers' and his massed and regimented infantry...

reminded one more of great Atlantic rollers than human formations. Clouds of cavalry, avalanches of field-guns and—at that time a novelty—squadrons of motor-cars (private and military) completed the array. For five hours the immense defilade continued. Yet this was only a twentieth of the armed strength of the regular German Army before mobilization.

Strange to find Winston Churchill and Sylvia Plath both choosing the word 'roller,' in both its juggernaut and wavelike declensions, for that scene.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“If you steal from the thieves,
can they call the cops!
If you heist from the blackmarket,
is it really a crime!

If you rob the British Museum,
isn't it a humanitarian initiative!
If you blast Mount Rushmore to ashes,
isn't it really public service!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Nazis are the most dehumanized community in history, while empires with hundred times the atrocity walk like they invented morality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Nazis were really nice people, they just wanted what's best for the world - tickles you the wrong way, doesn't it, yet you idolize buckingham and the pilgrims!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Pavlov's Monkeys (Sonnet 2608)

I'm a brain scientist,
I know more about human instincts,
than the humans do themselves,
yet one thing still puzzles me -

how can people be so repulsed at the nazis,
yet be so stupidly unabashed about
the british empire and the american pilgrims,
with a criminal record hundred times bloodier!

You feel quite at home, proud even,
when you hear, 'the British were civilizers,
the Americans were pioneers,'
yet if I say one positive word about the nazis,
suddenly your blood boils like circus-trained dogs!

It's good, your blood should boil,
your blood should boil at the
very idea of hate and persecution,
but what kind of a prehistoric orangutan
cherrypicks which persecution to be mad at,
based on the color of skin or place of birth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm a brain scientist, I know more about human instincts, than the humans do themselves, yet one thing still puzzles me - how can people be so repulsed at the nazis, yet be so stupidly unabashed about the british empire and the american pilgrims, with a criminal record hundred times bloodier!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799)

Most social issues are rooted in religion,
most religious issues are rooted in politics,
most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.

There's a holocaust remembrance day,
or let me fix your uneducated english:
there's a universally recognized
jewish holocaust remembrance day,
and that's great, but I have just one question -

where is the native american holocaust remembrance,
where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance,
where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance,
where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance -

all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies,
why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There's a universally recognized jewish holocaust remembrance day, and that's great, but I have just one question - where is the native american holocaust remembrance, where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance, where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance, where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance - all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies, why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

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“Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Colonial history is not heritage, it's a crimescene.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The Unholy Trinity (Naskaristana 2533)

History of the world written by colonizers
is no different from map of the world
made by flat earthers -

just like flat earthers flatten the globe
to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten
civilizations into savages,
philosophies into myths,
cosmologies into coincidences,
lived holiness into paganism,

erasure into expansion,
trafficking into trade,
native resistance into terrorism,
and colonial terrorism into civilizing.

The vatican, british empire, and uncle sam,
these three are the apex predator of planet earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“History of the world written by colonizers is no different from map of the world made by flat earthers - just like flat earthers flatten the globe to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten civilizations into savages, philosophies into myths, cosmologies into coincidences, lived holiness into paganism, erasure into expansion, trafficking into trade, native resistance into terrorism, and colonial terrorism into civilizing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Crowns belong beneath my sneakers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The Christian Church is the original religious persecutor of planet earth, British monarchy is the original terrorist organization of planet earth, Druncle Sam is the planet's longest running pandemic, Israeli state is the planet's youngest delinquent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you want safe, go read those mushy european literature written by privileged white aristocrats, sheltered in romanticized make believe, living off the exploits from plantations - Naskar is not for those seeking a safe narrative, the point of Naskar is to knit your neurons human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“In English we call it Israel,
in Naskarian we call it Sanitarium.

In English we call it Britannia,
in Naskarian we call it Malaria.

In English we call it America,
in Naskarian we call it Terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Men who believe in the rule of law believe in the sanctity of contract. But a contract in which one party is not allowed to be heard and is forced to sign at the point of a gun is invalid. Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles only when threatened that, should it refuse, the country would be invaded, and her people further starved.”
― Patrick J. Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

“The Unholy Trinity (Sonnet 3109)

You don't need to cook up scandals to smear me,
I can give you all the real scandals you want,
hot out of the Naskar pen, go enjoy:

Churchill was a big fat cannibal,
Columbus was a wanted terrorist -

as far as historic records are concerned,
the religion of violence is christianity,
the government of violence is america,
the kingdom of violence is britain -

every culture has its skeletons,
but the vatican, america, and britain,
these three are the unholy trinity of
planet earth, built on a mountain of skeletons,
as opposed to my brother's sermon on the mount.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Every culture has its skeletons, but the vatican, america, and britain, these three are the unholy trinity of planet earth, built on a mountain of skeletons, as opposed to my brother's sermon on the mount.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“As far as historic records are concerned,
the religion of violence is christianity,
the government of violence is america,
the kingdom of violence is britain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human