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> [“The white world was tearing itself to pieces. White solidarity was riven and shattered. And—fear of white power and respect for white civilization together dropped away like garments outworn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/the-white-world-was-tearing-itself-to-pieces-white-solidarity-was/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

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## More by T. Lothrop Stoddard

> [“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/we-have-adopted-european-costume-european-ways-of-living-even-the/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“Wherever the white man goes he attempts to impose the bases of his ordered civilization. He puts down tribal war, he wages truceless combat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/wherever-the-white-man-goes-he-attempts-to-impose-the-bases-of-his/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“China remains not only the cultural but also the territorial and racial centre of the yellow world. Four-fifths of the yellow race is concentrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/china-remains-not-only-the-cultural-but-also-the-territorial-and/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“Such a catastrophe cannot threaten if the Nordic race will gather itself together in time, shake off the shackles of an inveterate altruism, discard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/such-a-catastrophe-cannot-threaten-if-the-nordic-race-will-gather/)

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> [“Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/jenghiz-khan-and-his-lieutenants-slaughtered-more-than-18-500-000/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“so absorbed is the white world with its domestic dissensions that it pays scant heed to racial problems whose importance for the future of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/so-absorbed-is-the-white-world-with-its-domestic-dissensions-that-it/)

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> [“great Nordic race. It is characterized by a fair white skin, wavy hair with a range of color from dark brown to flaxen, light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/great-nordic-race-it-is-characterized-by-a-fair-white-skin-wavy-hair/)

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> [“of the 53,000,000 square miles which (excluding the polar regions) constitute the land area of the globe, only 6,000,000 square miles had non-white governments,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/of-the-53-000-000-square-miles-which-excluding-the-polar-regions/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“Arab expansions under the impulse of the Mohammedan religion finally tore away all the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, while from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/arab-expansions-under-the-impulse-of-the-mohammedan-religion-finally/)

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> [“For four hundred years the white man had added continent to continent in his imperial progress, equipped with resistless sea-power and armed with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/for-four-hundred-years-the-white-man-had-added-continent-to-continent/)

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> [“Japanese and Koreans to the east; Siamese, Annamites, and Cambodians to the south; and to the north the nomad Mongols and Manchus.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/japanese-and-koreans-to-the-east-siamese-annamites-and-cambodians-to/)

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> [“They knew that the “Young Turk” clique which had engineered the coup was made up of Europeanized renegades, many of them not even nominal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/they-knew-that-the-young-turk-clique-which-had-engineered-the-coup/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“Our present condition is the result of following the leadership of idealists and philanthropic doctrinaires, aided and abetted by the perfectly understandable demand of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/our-present-condition-is-the-result-of-following-the-leadership-of/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“for the white man to share his blood with, or intrust his ideals to, brown, yellow, black, or red men. This is suicide pure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/for-the-white-man-to-share-his-blood-with-or-intrust-his-ideals-to/)

[T. Lothrop Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-lothrop-stoddard/)

> [“The backbone of western civilization is racially Nordic, the Alpines and Mediterraneans being effective precisely to the extent in which they have been Nordicized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-lothrop-stoddard/the-backbone-of-western-civilization-is-racially-nordic-the-alpines/)

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