Kindlehighlight Quote by Sara Miles

“The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is a demand…

— Bell Hooks

“Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a…

— Ian McEwan

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“The two enemies of HUMANITY are IMPERIALISM and EXTREMISM.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful,…

— Jeremy Dyson

“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other…

— C.S. Lewis

“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something…

— C.S. Lewis

“The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of bringing light…

— Albert Memmi

“I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which…

— Anonymous

“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

“Sadly, cowardice, ignorance, indifference, greed and fear, rule over the world”

— Den Sjo