Colonial Quotes

108 Colonial quotes by 91 unique authors

Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands… — Heinrich von Treitschke
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home… — Robyn Davidson
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop… — Arthur Laffer
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate… — Amilcar Cabral
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South… — Junichiro Koizumi
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was… — Christopher Columbus
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are… — Karl Liebknecht
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a… — Robert S Ellwood
If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging? — Ho Chi Minh
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial… — Louis Leakey
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against… — Leon Trotsky
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out… — Johan Galtung
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a… — Evo Morales
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing… — Chuck Palahniuk
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed… — Os Guinness
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. — Tom Morello
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. — David Morrissey
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. — V.S. Naipaul
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. — Chinua Achebe
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave… — Han Suyin
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give… — Kwame Nkrumah
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution. — Ho Chi Minh

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