Quotes About Colonizer

#1. Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Louise Erdrich

#2. Early anthropology was not at all seen as art for art's sake; it was intended to facilitate the colonizer's work.

David Van Reybrouck

#3. Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.

J.M. Blaut

#4. A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a phenomenally successful invader and colonizer in part because it exploits the very features that make us successful as a species or as an organism.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#6. What do you know of souls and hearts and how they break here? You don't know me at all.

Amie Kaufman

#7. A dirty text a day keeps the doc away." "You sure you're a virgin?" "I'm a virgin, not a priest." He rolled his eyes then went to the pantry to grab a few more marshmallows.

Rachel Van Dyken

#8. That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

Pope Pius XII

#9. People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.

Sarah Noffke

#10. Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

Eddie Van Halen

#11. Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Douglas Adams

#12. You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Zig Ziglar INC.

#13. It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Golda Meir

#14. If Nicholas be not always found to be blameless or agreeable, he is not always intended to appear so. He is a young man of an impetuous temper and of little or no experience; and I saw no reason why such a hero should be lifted out of nature.

Charles Dickens

#15. I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#16. My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

Emily Deschanel

#17. The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

John Vance Cheney

#18. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Lysa TerKeurst

#19. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?

Fiona Mountain

#20. The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

George Bernard Shaw