Quote by Centennius, Ralph

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America,…

— Fidel Castro

“It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.”

— Partha Chatterjee

“In the 1960s the journalists Henry Fairlie and Anthony Sampson had popularized the disdainful name that the historian A. J. P. Taylor had given…

— Niall Ferguson

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a…

— Robertson Davies

“Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there’s trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting…

— Shashi Tharoor

Exercising dominion over Puerto Rico, as the U.S. has done for more than a century - without granting Puerto Ricans the full franchise in…

— Ritchie Torres

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about the shapes…

— Adam Hochschild

“The body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the cover of an old book (it's contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and guilding),…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.”

— Patrick Mendis

“In the words of Marcel Marceau...”

— Tim Watson

“He agreed with Francis Bacon: Old friends to trust, old wood to burn, old authors to read.”

— Lilian Jackson Braun