Colonialism Quote by Albert Memmi

“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that…

— Gordon S. Wood

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states…

— Albert Memmi

“What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely…

— Joseph Conrad

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.…

— Frantz Fanon

“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.”

— Eric Partridge

“Colonized painting, for instance, is balanced between poles. From excessive submission to Europe resulting in depersonalization, it passes to such a violent return to…

— Albert Memmi

“Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on…

— Dan Hancox

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of…

— Jane Sherron De Hart

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all,…

— Thomas More

“It is allowed that vocations and employments of least dignity are of the most apparent use; that the meanest artisan or manufacturer contributes more…

— Samuel Jonhson

“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”

— Ivan Illich

“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to be free…

— Erik Pevernagie