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Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism. — Evan Osnos

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. — Bell Hooks

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

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. — Saddam Hussein

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

Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead. — S.A. David

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

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists. — Rebecca West

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

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. — Jane Fonda

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

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. — George Orwell

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

Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man ... — Anonymous

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled. — Robert Gilpin

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. — Joseph Stalin

Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it? — Arundhati Roy

On its most basic level, imperialism was all about building railroads. — Robert Gaudi

Power is something that is out of term. — Lena Hussain

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. — Assata Shakur

Imperialism was particularly encouraged by the system of capital export to the agrarian zones which emerged at the same time. — Anonymous

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. — Eduardo Galeano

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated. — Lin Biao

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism. — Hugo Chavez

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

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force. — Howard Zinn

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

The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'. — Paul Johnson

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

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. — Lech Walesa

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. — Hannah Arendt

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

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. — J.M. Blaut

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

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

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 or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. — Bill Ayers

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie — H.W. Brands

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. — 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

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists. — Sukarno

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

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. — Che Guevara

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death. — Hugo Chavez

finally defeat Japanese imperialism only through the cumulative effect of many offensive campaigns and battles in both regular and guerrilla warfare, — Mao Zedong

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

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country. — Tom Brokaw

Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. — Che Guevara

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain. — Chiang Kai-shek