Quotes About Anti Imperialism

#1. I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

Rachel Platten

#2. We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

Tommy Douglas

#3. to tell people to stop practicing their faith was imperialism in nineties clothing, a colonial hangover bordering on racism. Instead, we were embraced as a new generation of anti-colonial politicized youth. Curiously,

Maajid Nawaz

#4. I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#5. Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself.

Don DeLillo

#6. If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

Charles Kingsley

#7. 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

#8. It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Henry Rollins

#10. [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

Martin Buber

#12. In addition, historical interpretations of this period in China have been shaped by Karl Marx's writings on this subject. Despite his anti-imperialist stance, Marx often uses racist expressions, such as "barbarous"and "hereditary stupidity," to describe Chinese culture and people.

Tonglin Lu

#13. Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

Corinne Maier

#14. It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.

Eknath Easwaran

#15. We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Neil Sheehan

#16. When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.

Scott Aukerman

#17. I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#18. Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

Edward St. Aubyn

#19. All those who slight me to my face,
Or do me any other evil,
Even if they blame or slander me,
May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

Shantideva

#20. Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#21. A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

#22. Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

John L. Lewis

#23. My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

Natalie Martinez