quotations about imperialism
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
"Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf"
Imperialism is challenged from two sides. On the one hand, there is a rising tide of nationalism within the various empires, entailing demands for self-government and independence. On the other hand, there is an increasing realization that the whole idea of the exclusive empire belongs to an age that is past; and that the backward regions of the world, both in respect of economic development and cultural advance, should be regarded as a responsibility resting upon the international community as a whole.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
"Imperialism and Colonies", An Encyclopedia of Pacifism
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
HUGO CHAVEZ
speech, Jan. 31, 2005
We are hated and feared in much of the world, as empires always are.
DANIEL C. MAGUIRE
A Moral Creed for All Christians
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword.
CARLOS FUENTES
Christopher Unborn
Naughty business, this Empire.
CHUCK WENDIG
Life Debt
His world empire is still, as formerly, an under-world empire, a hospital, a subterranean empire, a Ghetto empire ... And he himself so pale, so weak, so décadent ... even the palest of the pale still became master over him.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Case of Wagner: The Twilight of the Idols
Empires always become "bad news" for their home countries.
PETER DALE SCOTT
The Road to 9/11
If we examine the various theories of imperialism that have been propounded we find that ... they all affirm a condemnatory axiom ... that imperialism is evil, that it is the evil behavior of rapacious capitalists or atavistic warriors, or perhaps more generally, an evil that lurks in all human beings; presumably too, as historic evil, it carries ineluctably the fatality of its own self-punishment ... [but] we must clearly distinguish between the two varieties of imperialism that have alternated and competed in the world's history -- the progressive and the regressive.
LEWIS S. FEUER
Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind
There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known. It's called sugar. If you look at the history of imperialism, a lot of it has to do with that.
NOAM CHOMSKY
lecture at the University of Houston, October 18, 2002
The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of tequila, cannabis, and strawberry shampoo.
MOONSHINE NOIRE
Moonshine Noire
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?
DAVID HARVEY
The New Imperialism