Imperialism Quotes - Page 6

• Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Wings

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Form, Radical

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). "El ingenio de Churchill"

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• The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Believe, Other Cultures

  Fuente: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Middle East, Experts, Needs

  "CNN Reliable Sources". www.cnn.com. January 26, 2003.

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• Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

  C. L. R. James

  Historical, Today, Commodity

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• What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Country, Ambition

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• 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.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Democracy, Ran

  Fuente: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• 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.

  Tony Benn

  World, Remember, Humanitarian

  Source: think-left.org

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• I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the full range of people who are committed to social and economic equality and ecological justice - i.e. to some variant of a leftist vision of a decent society - it will always be the case that some will be more focused on egalitarian economic issues, others around the environment and climate change, others on US imperialism, militarism and foreign policy, others on race and gender equality, and still others on sexual identity.

  Robert Pollin

  Pensamiento, Personas, Justicia

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

  Hugo Chávez

  Saying No, Rising, Fascism

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• Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our public lands. It is a story that is largely unknown in the rest of the country. It is a disturbing and community-destroying example of domestic imperialism being waged against people in places deeply connected to the public lands that are our public commons. The Bush energy policy is a short-term strategy based on corporate greed instead of a sustainable vision of what best supports local economies and healthy ecosystems.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, People, Support

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• ... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Socialism, Capitalism

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.206, Ocean Press

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• The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.

  Dervla Murphy

  País, Guerra, América

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.53, The Overlook Press

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• Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.

  J. Allan Hobson

  Political, Consistency, Definitions

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• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Objectivity, Growth, Encounters

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

  Charles Sumner

  Rights, Giving, Liberty

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.6482, Library of Alexandria

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• Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent and taking away Indian lands in order to enlarge the territory of the United States. We have been an imperial power and an expansionist power for a very long time.

  Howard Zinn

  Order, Land, Long

  Fuente: bad.eserver.org

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• American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

  Tariq Ali

  Names, Way, Frightened

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Adventure, Fighting

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• No sabía mucha historia cuando me hice bombardero en las Fuerzas Aéreas de Estados Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sólo después de la guerra vi que nosotros, como los nazis, habíamos cometido atrocidades... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresde, mis propias misiones de bombardeo. Y cuando estudié historia después de la Guerra, aprendí leyendo por mi cuenta, no en mis clases universitarias, sobre la historia de la expansión y el imperialismo de Estados Unidos.

  Howard Zinn

  Guerra, lectura, aire

  "Habla Zinn". Entrevista con Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. 19 de abril de 2008.

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• Una nación puede ser una cosa o la otra, una democracia o un imperialismo, pero no puede ser ambas cosas. Si se aferra al imperialismo, perderá, como la antigua República Romana, en la que tanto se modeló nuestro sistema, como la antigua República Romana, perderá su democracia en favor de una dictadura interna.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Democracia, República, Palos

  "Chalmers Johnson: 'Némesis: Los últimos días de la República Americana'". "Democracy Now!" con Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. 27 de febrero de 2007.

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• Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  War, Brain, Colonialism

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• Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.

  Che Guevara

  Sacrifice, Effort, Battle

  Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). "Che Guevara habla", Pathfinder Press

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• Europa está siendo sometida al tipo de programas que devastaron América Latina durante muchos años. América Latina los ha echado y se está retirando: Tiene éxito; se está democratizando; se está desarrollando económicamente; y está libre de la metralla del imperialismo estadounidense desde hace 25 años. Mientras tanto, Europa Occidental se destruye sistemáticamente, se destruye yendo en dirección contraria.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Successful, America

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.

  George Soros

  Taken, Democracies Have, America

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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