Quotes About Colonization

#1. Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

Albert Memmi

#3. If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

Barney Oliver

#4. What rivets me to history is seeing / acts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens.

Adrienne Rich

#5. The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

James Monroe

#6. Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

Paul A. Baran

#7. Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Theodor Herzl

#8. The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Slobodan Milosevic

#9. The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

Jimmy Carter

#10. When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

Buzz Aldrin

#11. Human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism ... inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon) ... And through it all there has always been some truly awful food.

Matt Haig

#12. You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

Naomi Novik

#13. This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

Pope Francis

#14. To get the most bang for your buck, drink your kefir right before bed, so the probiotics can settle in and have a colonization party. Less really is more. Yes, I have overdone it, and spent more time in the company of our porcelain friend than I care to remember.

Tess Masters

#15. Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

Gustav Stresemann

#16. You could clearly tell that the country had no sovereignty: this was still colonization in its ugliest face. In the so-called free world, the politicians preach things such as sponsoring democracy, freedom, peace, and human rights: What hypocrisy! Still, many people believe this propaganda garbage.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#17. We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

Sid Meier

#18. The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest.
If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown 'soulless' black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization

Viktor Vijay Kumar

#19. Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

Jimmy Carter

#20. England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

Aasif Mandvi

#21. The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

G. Edward Griffin

#22. Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

John Prendergast

#23. The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.

James C. Scott

#24. Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Ferdinand Marcos

#25. I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

Nawal El Saadawi

#26. There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

Khaled Mashal

#27. The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth.

Isaac Asimov

#28. Religious disintegration began with colonization.

Eduardo Galeano

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.

Hannah Arendt

#32. There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

Pope Francis

#33. I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.

Mark Bradford

#35. We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

Sherman Alexie

#36. For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

Melissa Farley

#37. I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

Fred D'Aguiar

#38. In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.

Robin Marantz Henig

#39. Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

Frederick Jackson Turner

#40. The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#41. I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

Hanya Yanagihara

#42. Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

John Scalzi

#43. In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#44. Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in New World colonization and be willing to accept shift work. Fluency in Spanish an asset.Some travel involved

Christopher Columbus

#45. I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.

Hanya Yanagihara

#46. How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash anything that runs counter to our understanding?

Stanislaw Lem

#47. It's bad enough ... when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

#48. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Aravind Adiga

#49. When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

T.F. Hodge

#50. Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Anthony Burgess

#51. The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.

Jesikah Sundin

#52. Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home

S.G. Rainbolt

#53. I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

Danzy Senna

#54. She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.

Thomas Pierce

#55. When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream

Dambudzo Marechera

#56. Multi-colored lights flashed and glared on the wet road and cast eerie reflections, reminiscent of artistic surrealism. Fillion imagined that his distress and anger swirled and moved with the refracted lights, creating an urban masterpiece of demented fury.

Jesikah Sundin

#57. Leaf felt buried beneath the remains of their prior life, the ashes coating every part of who he thought he was in this community.

Jesikah Sundin

#58. The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!

Bob Bello

#59. Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

Greg Bear

#60. Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#61. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#62. Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.

Jesikah Sundin

#63. What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.

Orson Scott Card

#64. Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future.

Jesikah Sundin

#65. To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.

Becky Chambers