Top 30 Imperialists Quotes
#1. Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
John Pilger
#2. Much of the world is jealous of the United States. Many of the religious and political fanatics who ridicule and criticize the U.S., calling Americans "Satanists" and "imperialists," would fall head over heels for a green card, if they don't already have one.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#3. The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il-sung
#4. As Katha Pollitt puts it: US invasions have made the work of Muslim feminists much more difficult. The last thing they need is for women's rights to be branded as the tool of the invaders and occupiers and cultural imperialists.11
Nina Power
#5. Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
Michael Sata
#6. Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#7. Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
Saul Bellow
#8. I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.
Sukarno
#9. I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
Colm O'Rourke
#11. The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...
Salman Rushdie
#12. In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
Alice Walker
#13. There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
Rebecca West
#14. USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
Gore Vidal
#15. European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories.
Yuval Noah Harari
#16. Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
Nelson Mandela
#17. Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
Alan Bradley
#18. Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.
Michael Ignatieff
#19. Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.
Robert Mugabe
#20. It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.
Kim Il-sung
#21. The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
Pankaj Mishra
#22. Those who naively credit Gandhi with a conscientious or consistent pacifism might wish to ask if this did not amount to letting the Japanese imperialists do his fighting for him.
Christopher Hitchens
#23. Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.
Mao Zedong
#24. We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.
Evan Sayet
#25. The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.
Carlos P. Romulo
#27. National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
Jon Landau
#29. Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.
John Green
#30. The impulse to lie, to continue to wallow in secrets as he had for years, was only the faintest whisper now, a nagging sense of stepping too far on an uncharted path, easily overridden by need to tell her. If he couldn't tell her, at least he could find some comfort in confidence.
Anthony Ryan