Imperialism Quotes

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.