Imperialism Quotes
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
C. L. R. James
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Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
Karl Liebknecht
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
Han Suyin
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Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie
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The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
Hannah Arendt
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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
Han Suyin
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A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.
Chalmers Johnson
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The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?
Eric Voegelin
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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
Unita Zelma Blackwell
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Angela Davis
