Colonial Quotes

108 quotes by 91 authors

The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover,… — Adolf Hitler
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left.… — Heinrich Harrer
A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is… — John Steinbeck
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in… — George Ayittey
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and… — Charlie Pierce
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. — Samora Machel
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete… — Malcolm X
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam,… — Alice Morse Earle
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and… — Alice Morse Earle
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the… — Alice Morse Earle
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and… — Martin Jacques
There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in… — Martin Jacques
For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to… — Martin Jacques
I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start,… — Thomas P.M. Barnett
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the… — Michael Oren
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. — Patrick Chappatte
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression. — Thabo Mbeki
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up… — King George V
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial… — Patrick White
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. — Nguyen Cao Ky

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