Benedict Anderson Quotes

In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it.

Benedict Anderson

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• In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Grief
  • Empires
  • Aristocratic