Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is…

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

— Camille Paglia

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

— Chris Hadfield

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

— Bill Keller

A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. And to fight that…

— Noam Chomsky

“America’s intervention, Halberstam said on a later occasion, occurred “in the embers of another colonial war.”

— Fredrik Logevall

“Indeed, post-colonial theory first emerged in the wake of the failure of the Third World nations to go it alone. It marked the end…

— Terry Eagleton

I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to…

— Salman Rushdie

When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the…

— Claire Denis

Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that…

— Immortal Technique

No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.

— Seth Berkley

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

— Jessica Hagedorn

The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to…

— Nigel Gibson

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back…

— Robyn Davidson

“A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting…

— Shannon L. Alder

I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears…

— Gloria Guinness