Quotes About Imperialism

Rudyard Kipling

I have always despised the capitalist greed and imperialist hubris that have motivated it.

Hard times" is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's "hard times" were made harder by them.

I am out here to work, mind, to hold this wretched country by force. I'm not a missionary or a Labour Member or a vague sentimental sympathetic literary man. I'm just a servant of the Government; it's the profession you wanted me to choose myself, and that's that. We're not pleasant in India, and we don't intend to be pleasant. We've something more important to do.

They knew that Jamaica produced sugar, rum and bananas, that Nigeria produced cocoa, and that British Guiana had large natural resources; but these names, though as familiar as the products with which they were associated, were of places far away, and no one seemed really interested in knowing anything about the peoples who lived there or their struggles towards political and economic betterment.

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!

In July, Lin Piao, China's Minister of Defense, publishes a declaration, "Long Live the Victory of the People's War!" which calls upon the underdeveloped nations, likened to the "rural areas of the world," to join forces against American and Western imperialism, the "cities of the world.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

Of the Melian population the Athenians executed all the grown men

current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and post-World War II creation of the state of Israel.

There's an end-of-empire atmosphere about Burgess; of high Victorian imperialism fading away in a remote outpost.

The history of India was constructed in accordance with nineteenth century European views on what history should be and what was thought to be Indian history.

On a universal scale the civilized were the colonizers and the uncivilized were the colonized.

am an anti-imperialist," Mark Twain told the reporters at dockside. "I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."12

I am an anti-imperialist," Mark Twain told the reporters at dockside. "I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Referring to Marx's thesis the the proletariat had no fatherland, he said that the epoch of national wars was over, and that the current struggle was an imperialist war.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

That was the ace hidden up the sleeves of the Jardines, Mathesons and Dents of the world. Despite all their cacklings about Free Trade, the truth was that their commercial advantages had nothing to do with markets or trade or more advanced business practices – it lay in the brute firepower of the British Empire's guns and gunboats.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

quoting Kipling, I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to mankind.

Truths are not constantly evident in the circumstances to which they refer. They are born - sometimes late. This truth was born with the struggles and wars of national libration. In the light of the newborn truth, the significance of imperialism changed. Its demands were seen to be different. Previously it had demanded cheap raw materials, exploited labour and a controlled world market. Today it demands a mankind that counts for nothing.