There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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.
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.
The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U. S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities. . . Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U. S. expansion and imperialism.
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.
. . . If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
