Imperialism Quotes

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

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Life
  • Business
  • Inelastic

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

  

  Amilcar Cabral
  • Imperialism
  • Eliminate
  • Insults

• Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Dying
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Known
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism

• Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Country
  • Return
  • Democrat

• Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Imperialism
  • Negation

• We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.

  

  Andrei Grechko
  • World
  • Imperialism
  • Operate

• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Powerful
  • Birth
  • Weak

• The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Today
  • Imperialism
  • Menace

• The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Hope
  • Foundation
  • Political Bodies

• If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Persons
  • Names
  • Humanitarian

• It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Attention
  • Social
  • Mystery

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

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Limits
  • Production
  • Imperialism

• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Capitalism
  • Imperialism

• Energy weapons are being used against neighbors. The move toward a policy of imperialism ... has a clear and high price that will eventually be paid by the citizens of a nation that embarks on the imperialist path.

  

  Andrey Illarionov
  • Citizens
  • Paid
  • Imperialism

• America: the name itself is synonymous with imperialism - you've taken the name of two entire continents & claimed it as your own, & shut out anyone else from using it.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • America
  • Imperialism
  • Claimed

• In so far as nationalism inculcates in us a sense of national and social justice which calls upon us to fight any system that is oppressive or tyrannical both in our country and the world, there I am completely with nationalism. I hate Imperialism whether British or Japanese or Burmese. ..

  

  Aung San
  • Hate
  • Justice
  • Nationalism

• We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.

  

  Sukarno
  • Unity
  • Forces
  • Imperialism

• So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • World
  • Peace
  • Imperialism

• It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Revolution

• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

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