Imperialism Quotes - Page 5

• Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Sick, Chinese

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

  Camille Paglia

  Egypt, Japan, White

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.

  Hugo Chavez

  Ostriches, Hands, Enemy

  "Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media" by Stephen Sackur, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

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

  Robert Gilpin

  Form, Critics, Trade

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.172, Princeton University Press

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• Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophical, Hands, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

  Fredric Jameson

  Mass Culture, Games, Reassuring

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

  J. P. Morgan

  Teacher, Home, Fighting

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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  Fidel Castro

  Sacrifice, People, Victory

  "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.

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• One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Disappointment, Struggle, Views

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• we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Evil, Way

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• Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Order, President, Toady

  Remark in the United Nations General Assembly, October 12, 1960.

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

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Business, Firsts, Life Is

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• America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.

  Ann Bridge

  Thinking, America, People

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

  Lin Biao

  Splits, Defeated, Colossus

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• The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Europe, Giving

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• In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

  Country, War, Agreement

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world.

  Vijay Prashad

  Cheer, Two, Worry

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• The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Chinese

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

  Henry M. Morris

  Christian, Practice, Roots

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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

  Believe, Race, Dominance

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• 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, Real, War

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• Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Democracy, Crusades

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.110, Transaction Publishers

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• We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Men, White Man

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• We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Taken

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

  Che Guevara

  Freedom, Struggle, Responsibility

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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