Imperialism Quotes

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

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

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

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

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.

Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.

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.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

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.

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