Quotes About Colonization

toda esa panda de admirables hijos de puta crea un mundo nuevo de ciudades y catedrales que ahí siguen hoy, por el que se extiende una lengua poderosa y magnífica llamada castellana, allí española, que hoy hablan quinientos cincuenta millones de personas y de la que el mexicano Octavio Paz, o Carlos Fuentes, o uno de ésos, no recuerdo quién, dijo: Se llevaron el oro, pero nos trajeron el oro.

En eso, como muchos mexicanos, Huerta es injusto —opinó—. Gran parte de lo que se ha hecho de bueno lo hicieron los españoles. Incluso a pesar de las antiguas crueldades y la codicia actual.

A diferencia de ustedes, los norteamericanos sólo hemos venido a saquear… No dejamos catedrales ni universidades, ni nada a cambio de cuanto arrebatamos en territorios, ni de los tesoros que nos llevamos en barcos y trenes

The English-speaking world developed a historical narrative known as the "Black Legend," which portrayed the Spanish as cruel and backward conquistadores who murdered and plundered their way through the Caribbean and Latin America. The British, in contrast (according to their own account), were hard-working, forward-looking colonists (rather than colonizers) who industriously set up self-sufficient farming villages on empty lands.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.

Rich, modern countries have common traits that make them different from poor, traditional countries, which also share common traits. Differences in wealth can lead to conflict between societies, but the evidence suggests that this mainly occurs when rich and powerful societies try to conquer and colonize poor and traditional societies.

If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in the Dominican Republic, that are the result of centuries of international commerce, colonization, conquest, and the slave trade. The facelessness means that there is no 'typical' Dominican woman.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.

Among the colonizers there would be not only altruists such as Dr. Livingstone but abusive scoundrels as well, but in the final analysis, the benefits would far outweigh the harm. Life in Africa was showing him that things were not as clear as they had been in theory. In

Toda la simpatía de Adam Smith se vuelca hacia las colonias inglesas en Norteamérica, los futuros Estados Unidos. Explica que han prosperado mucho más que las de España y Portugal porque Inglaterra les dio más libertad para producir y comerciar, a diferencia del severo control que Lisboa y Madrid imponían a sus colonias. Y, una vez más, subraya que las limitaciones al comercio constituyen «un crimen contra la humanidad».

The indigenous people of five continents were facing an intractable enemy from a sixth continent that was convinced that they had the right to steal the land on other

The original settler in the New World was Thomas Minor, who came originally from the village of Chew Magna in Gloucestershire.

It wasn't only our country they occupied, Irene explained to Amir Shah. They occupied our minds.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.