Colonialism Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

“The Empire is a force unprecedented in any age, poised to end history itself. No one should confront it alone.”

— Alexander Freed

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's…

— Stephen Green

“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I know that…

— Mouloud Benzadi

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for…

— John Burgoyne

“It was only when the Britain of great prewar dominions had become a memory that nostalgia for it became possible.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“He hadn’t finished: ‘Let us bring down our righteous anger against the festering scum who by their cowardice and sloth have reduced the British…

— John Sweeney

“I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot…

— Niall Ferguson