Democracies have Quote by Pearl S. Buck

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

— Lech Walesa

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was…

— Tony Benn

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

— Irving Babbitt

Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in…

— George Soros

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The…

— Chalmers Johnson

Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only…

— Sun Yat-sen

The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force,…

— Jonathan Schell

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not…

— Bob Avakian

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is…

— Kim Il-sung

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism…

— Thomas Sankara

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

— Charley Reese

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a…

— Johan Renck