Colonial Quotes
108 quotes by 92 authors
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there…
— Erik Dammann
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not…
— Paul Robeson
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Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see…
— Ratan Tata
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We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of…
— Jeff Cooper
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of…
— Karl Marx
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That…
— Newt Gingrich
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We…
— Abdul Kalam
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the…
— Thomas G. West
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The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's…
— Ratan Tata
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How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
— Thabo Mbeki
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While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor…
— Eliot Engel
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In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of…
— Frantz Fanon
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Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast…
— Gerry Adams
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It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food,…
— Andrew Zimmern
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