The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.
Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
