Beaten Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another…

— Jung Chang

“And what do we do to fit our English-speaking Chinese, our docile and happy, our truly loyal servants, for the Asia of the future?…

— Han Suyin

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people…

— Winston Churchill

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the…

— Cornel West

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a…

— Goldwin Smith

“Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve…

— Russell Brand

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have always been of the opinion, that the allied armies had been permitted to escape too easily in 1860. Only a united effort…

— Empress Dowager Cixi

“Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking…

— P.G. Wodehouse