"There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep……" — Martin Jacques
"There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world."
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76 Quotes by Martin Jacques
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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of…
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other…
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must…
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality:…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are…
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion…
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium…
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More Colonial Quotes
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial…
— Unknown Author
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department…
— Paul Robeson
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Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people…
— Ratan Tata
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We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth…
— Jeff Cooper
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic…
— Karl Marx
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to…
— Newt Gingrich
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We…
— Abdul Kalam
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally…
— Thomas G. West
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The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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