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135 Imperialism quotes by 87 unique authors
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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,…
— Carlos Fuentes
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That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's…
— Steve Toltz
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When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
— George Orwell
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The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top
— Sarah Vowell
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America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
— John Quincy Adams
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I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and…
— Sukarno
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[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
— Malcolm X
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We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
— Edward Said
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Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex…
— Edward Said
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You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those…
— Malcolm X
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Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
— Vladimir Lenin
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The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or…
— Molly Ivins
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"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because…
— Mao Zedong
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The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance…
— Mao Zedong
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Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
— Vladimir Lenin
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The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement.…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
— Noam Chomsky
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The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing…
— Robert Dallek
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As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
— Stephen Kinzer
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The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend…
— Stephen Kinzer
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While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for…
— Brendan Sexton III
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to…
— J M Roberts
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