Quotes About Colonization

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Rupanya di bumi jajahan ini setiap orang hidup atas dasar hancur menghancurkan.

Teror merupakan sistem untuk menundukan rakyat, sedang kerakusan berlebihan menjadi tujuan dari pendudukan itu.

Kakau mati dengan berani; kalau hidup dengan berani. Kalau keberanian tidak ada itulah sebabnya setiap bangsa asing bisa jajah kita.

Bangun dari bumi penjajahan: hancur menghancurkan! Sedang mereka yang tidak dihancurkan, mereka yang tidak menghancurkan adalah landasan hidup binatang ini.

Apa yan pernah diberikan Belanda kepada rakyat? Mereka datang ke sini bukan untuk memberi, tetapi untuk meminta! Rakyat mendapat apa yang dicarinya sendiri, sejak dulu si Belanda lah yan malahan mendapat sebagian besar dari nasi yang dicari oleh rakyat. Apa yang diberikan Belanda kepada rakyat?

the redeeming Cross was stained with blood. Not that of the missionaries. Only that of indigenous peoples.

Empire in the past was always a far harsher and much more accident-prone business than conventional history books imply. And the costs of these overseas invasions were borne not just by those on the receiving end but - frequently - by ordinary, vulnerable people among or associated with the invaders.

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.

If you have a Falcon Heavy, and you have a Dragon, and you have a Bigelow module, then all of a sudden, life gets interesting.

'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color, and then there are native people, who were the first people of this country and have suffered so much just because some newcomers came over and said 'hey this looks like a nice place to set up camp, just hand it over to us.'

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Do you remember what happened to Mexico when Cortez and his very fine good friends arrived from Spain? A whole civilization destroyed by greedy, righteous bigots. History will never forgive Cortez.

The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so

The men of Earth came to Mars.

They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands.

Do you remember what happened to Mexico when Cortez and his very fine good friends arrived from Spain? A whole civilization destroyed by greedy, righteous bigots.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.

What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-- nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty