By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism…

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

— Irving Babbitt

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

— Assata Shakur

“All unknowns, at first, at least, to me, until I, like Columbus, “discovered” them. Is voyeurism a form of imperialism?”

— Ann Rower

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and…

— Andre Vltchek

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