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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
— Unita Blackwell
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.
— Amilcar Cabral
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
— Edward W. Said
Most American and European scholars believe that the Chinese speak their languages, only that they "talk" in Chinese.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.
— Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
— James Henry Breasted
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
— Bill Ayers
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
— Mike Malloy
Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.
— Andre Vltchek
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
— Winston Churchill
C" is for colonies Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most! — Mrs. Ernest Ames
The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.
— Jerry Rubin
and Imperialism always had been one of her difficulties.
— E. M. Forster
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
— Cindy Sheehan
This time they're making sure they can hold what they take: conquest is always easier than subjugation.
— Yoon Ha Lee
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
— Pearl S. Buck
Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.
— Bryant McGill
Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Imperialism is a paper tiger.
— Mao Zedong
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
— Irving Babbitt
...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.
— Roger Casement
The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.
— Eduardo Galeano
Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?
— Arundhati Roy
Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.
— Robert Gilpin
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
— Assata Shakur
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Power is something that is out of term.
— Lena Hussain
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
— Charley Reese
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
— Fidel Castro
The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.
— Hugo Chavez
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.
— Molly Ivins
Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
Imperialism means raping other nations; imperialist means rapist!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!
— Karl Marx
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
America ... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
— John Quincy Adams
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
— Bertrand Russell
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
— Chiang Kai-shek
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.
— Janeane Garofalo
Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.
— Eduardo Galeano
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.
— Assata Shakur
When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.
— Thomas Sankara
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
— Salman Rushdie
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.
— Patrick J. Buchanan
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
— Vladimir Lenin
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— Michael Moore
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
— Cindy Sheehan
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
— Karl Liebknecht
What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?
— Kenneth Patchen
A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.
— Peter Kuznick
Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.
— Corinne Maier
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
— Gaius Julius Caesar
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
— Marlon James
My body has never been to Europe. My mind has never left it.
— Brian Spellman
By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.
— Peter Heather
Soviet imperialism's as bad as American capitalism.
— David Mitchell
Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.
— Christopher Hitchens
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
— Edward W. Said
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
— Noam Chomsky
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
— Michael Kazin
Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism ... It is capitalism dying, not dead.
— Vladimir Lenin
I have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West.
— Vaclav Havel
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
— Karl Liebknecht
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
— Stephen Kinzer
No nation is wise enough to rule another.
— Helen Keller
The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
