Society Quote by William Shakespeare

“The Commonwealth—humanity—is in deep shit, and we’re the people with the shovels.”

— Marko Kloos

“It seemed that owning one man made you a scoundrel, but owning an entire nation made you a colonial benefactor.”

— Nelson A. Denis

“I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child, that what…

— C.S. Lewis

“Under what circumstances would those who are the beneficiaries of colonialism stop denying and choose to act differently?”

— Paulette Regan

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

— Plato

“It is the occupation of politicians to deny this ubiquity, nay, universality of corroded hearts, to discount the barren laboriousness of all paths. Reduce…

— William T. Vollmann

“Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states…

— Albert Memmi

“When the industrial colonialists and the politicians agree to sacrifice a region to a single economic goal, they inevitably sacrifice the people as well.”

— Wendell Berry

“Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of its favours to those that are called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or…

— Thomas More Hoban