Colonialism Quotes

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as...

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would cha...

How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own s...

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when ...

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the street...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

White people covered the earth like lice.

There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nation...

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian...

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. Fo...

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the Fre...

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had...

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th...

Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerston...

Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident....

You have to hate them, you mean? You can’t decide: I will or I won’t hate them?”Amar did not complet...

Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himsel...

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor...

It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could...

I want to defend Ben Bella just as I am going to defend Boumedienne. Ben Bella was not the 'demon' t...

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world bec...

As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning ...

Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition ...

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued viole...

Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at t...

In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used...

If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-lo...

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colo...

We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but about the psychology of globali...

As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Wh...

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd ha...

In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who ...

Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he ca...

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay ...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been bro...

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with th...

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would h...

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything bu...

To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I wil...

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

Today everyone on our side knows that criminality is not the result of the Algerian's congenital nat...

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presen...

In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the wa...

Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light t...

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