Quotes About Being Colonized

#1. But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

Drew Hayden Taylor

#2. Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.

Sherman Alexie

#3. While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Janet Yellen

#4. Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!

Philippa Gregory

#5. Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

John Perkins

#6. I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation.

John Steinbeck

#7. The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. Colonization usurps any free role in either war or peace, every decision contributing to his destiny and that of the world, and all cultural and social responsibility.

Albert Memmi

#8. Sam Hellerman is a genius!

Frank Portman

#9. Romeo: You know what pisses me off?
When good days are ruined by bad s*t.

Cambria Hebert

#10. The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

Thomas Sankara

#11. They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. My basic point being that stories are at the heart of what explorers and novelists say about strange regions of the world; they also become the method colonized people use to assert their own identity and the existence of their own history.

Edward W. Said

#13. In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

William Shakespeare