Imperialism Quotes
135 quotes by 87 authors
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
— Bill Ayers
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
— Irving Babbitt
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of…
— Wendell Willkie
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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
— Charley Reese
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Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of…
— John T. Flynn
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We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but…
— Mao Zedong
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In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if…
— William Ralph Inge
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The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way…
— Fidel Castro
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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American…
— Richey Edwards
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
— Pearl S. Buck
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These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not…
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in…
— Michael Parenti
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Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper…
— Mao Zedong
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You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.
— Jane Fonda
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Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin…
— Ghassan Kanafani
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Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived…
— Hugo Chavez
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