Imperialism Quotes

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!

— Karl Marx

“Veni, vidi, vici. ( I came, I saw, I conquered .)”

— Julius Caesar

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

— Anonymous

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

— Hugo Chavez

“Power is something that is out of term.”

— Lena Hussain

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

— Mao Zedong

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.

— Andre Vltchek

“On its most basic level, imperialism was all about building railroads.”

— Robert Gaudi

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

— Irving Babbitt

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

— Michael Moore

“If our troubles were purely the result of US imperialism, why weren’t South Koreans starving too?”

— Masaji Ishikawa

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not…

— Anonymous

Japan used to be an animistic society before Shinto imperialism was established. But most of us still have an animistic sense.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

— Che Guevara

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

— Frantz Fanon

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems…

— Henry M. Morris

Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history…

— Noam Chomsky

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

— Cindy Sheehan

“It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the…

— M.B. Dallocchio

If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're…

— Ian Svenonius

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it…

— David Olusoga

Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful…

— Andre Vltchek

“The main battle in imperialism is over land, of course; but when it came to who owned the land, who had the…

— Edward Said

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter…

— Joseph Conrad

Our view is that we would want to see the situation in Ireland resolved, but we do not intervene in that situation…

— Robert Mugabe

People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an…

— J. P. Morgan

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and…

— Deng Xiaoping

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and…

— Eric Voegelin

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

— Arundhati Roy

Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and…

— Mao Zedong

“Why do you hate Indians? You know white people are are much worse, don't you? It isn't as though there's some kind…

— Natasha Pulley

“Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion—atavistic in my opinion,…

— Edward W. Said

“The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged…

— Isaac Asimov

Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies.…

— Ho Chi Minh

“The coup that overthrew President Chavez of Venezuela in April 2002 was greeted with euphoria in Washington. The new president—a businessman—was instantly…

— David Harvey