Quotes About British Imperialism

#1. What could be more fortunate for the German propaganda machine than to be able to pump the theme that the Jews of Palestine were stealing the Arab lands just as they had tried to steal Germany. Jew hating and British imperialism - what music to the Mufti's ears! The

Leon Uris

#2. British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Christopher Isherwood

#3. That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. When the communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949, they accepted neither the semi-independence of Tibet nor the boundary lines drawn by British imperialism between Tibet and India.

Bruce Riedel

#5. The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture ... taking a verse out of context ... deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited - these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.

Billy Graham

#6. I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.

Jean Pigozzi

#7. I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.

Nicole Richie

#8. As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

Stephen Kinzer

#9. [Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

Tim Buck

#10. British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Salman Rushdie

#11. The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Charley Reese

#12. Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

Amartya Sen

#13. The concept of Just Noticeable Difference is summarized by the equation below (a.k.a. the Weber Fraction):

James Mourey

#14. Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Neal Shusterman

#15. According to Okonkwo, the British via its indirect rule system ensured that Africans saw their native leaders as the demons who betrayed their people. He called it a demonocracy and that was the first time I had seen him become so passionate about issues that affect Africa as a people and continent.

S.A. David

#16. I'd taken a deep breath before asking about his relationship history. It was the start of this new part of our relationship, and the end of the fun we'd been having. Reality had just entered our world.

Dorothy Koomson

#17. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

George Orwell

#18. Not that I'm the kind of person who would actually inflict emotional pain on another human being out of a selfish, twisted need for revenge.
I just like to think about it.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

#19. Blessed is the man who's lost it all.

Switchfoot

#20. Same way a serial killer chooses his weapons, only Aaron was the serial killer of souls.

Mary Ann D'Alto

#21. Current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and post-World War II creation of the state of Israel.

Rodney Stark

#22. The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Beeban Kidron