Quotes about Imperialism

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We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us t — Stanisław Lem, Solaris
The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once — Thorsten J. Pattberg
Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home. — Thorsten J. Pattberg
Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive conce — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
After his sisters were taken away, the Japanese occupying force sent my grandfather to Imperial Schools. My first langua — Alexander Chee, Edinburgh
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can crea — Eduardo Galeano
Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States und — Harold Cruse
It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu w — Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident. So many people have — Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
The path to the ethnic democratization of American society is through its culture, that is to say through its cultural a — Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had — Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Our fights must be rooted in experiences, in stories, and in anecdotes. People remember these more than sterile numbers — Syed Khalid Hussan, Undoing Border Imperialism
Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumou — Christopher Hitchens
My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m fa — R.F. Georgy, Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story
One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi bro — Graham Fuller
Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism a — Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas — David Andress, The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France
Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is — Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are sp — Edward Said, Orientalism
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. — Lydia Maria Francis Child