Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism…

If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and…

— Alexander H. Stephens

“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents of all…

— Rudolf Rocker

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that…

— Nicholas Negroponte

More or less Europe - that's the wrong alternative! What we need is less centralism.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate,…

— James A. Garfield

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

— Margaret Mead

“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a…

— Hannah Arendt

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

— Hannah Arendt

“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and the Left,…

— Jason Brennan

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not…

— Bob Avakian

We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the…

— Andrei Grechko

...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…

— Arundhati Roy

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way,…

— Tariq Ali

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt