The United States was undeniably imperialist in 1812…

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

— Robert Kiyosaki

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

— Boots Riley

The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist…

— Vladimir Lenin

As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and…

— Mao Zedong

You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the Communists, and…

— Elliott Colla

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in…

— J. Stalin

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

— Mark Twain

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being…

— Noam Chomsky

“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion…

— Wilhelm Reich

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

— Hugo Chavez

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it…

— Chalmers Johnson

To Barack Obama and the American Left, the 'imperialist' West is always guilty, and so, radical Islam is seen as at least half right…

— Tom Tancredo

“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

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

— C. L. R. James