Colonial Quotes

108 quotes by 92 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. — Thabo Mbeki
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
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
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
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
Itâ€™s just starting. I think itâ€™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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