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“Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with other tribes…

— Karl Popper

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

— H. G. Wells

“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.”

— Timothy Snyder

Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes…

— Jack D. Forbes

“...for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond of friendship…

— Plato

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

— Anonymous

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of…

— Vladimir Lenin

“debatable today, as the structure could house the entire population of Athens, but could do nothing to protect their resources or withstand a long…

— Tom Simek

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is…

— Kim Il-sung

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of…

— Vladimir Lenin

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give…

— Margaret Thatcher

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

— Hannah Arendt