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Imperialism is a paper tiger. -- Mao Zedong
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. -- George Orwell
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states. -- Karl Liebknecht
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. -- Irving Babbitt
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. -- Frantz Fanon
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
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious. -- Kim Il-sung
I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. -- Paul Robeson
We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. -- Kim Il-sung
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. -- Wendell Willkie
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. -- Kim Il-sung
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid! -- Karl Marx
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. -- Che Guevara
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. -- Bill Ayers
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead. -- Vladimir Lenin
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. -- Winston Churchill
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. -- Hannah Arendt
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. -- Camille Paglia
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. -- Assata Shakur
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. -- John T. Flynn
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. -- John Roberts
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. -- John Roberts
Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us. -- Che Guevara
Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution. -- Ghassan Kanafani
The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us. -- Stokely Carmichael
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism. -- Salman Rushdie
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. -- C. L. R. James
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible. -- Hassan Nasrallah
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. -- Noam Chomsky
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. -- Karl Liebknecht
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. -- Cindy Sheehan
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. -- John Quincy Adams
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest? -- Mark Twain
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain. -- Chiang Kai-shek
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. -- Cindy Sheehan
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism. -- Leon Trotsky
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. -- Angela Davis
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives. -- Henry A. Wallace
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. -- Daniel Ortega
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. -- Clara Zetkin
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. -- Emily Greene Balch
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us. -- Che Guevara
I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich. -- Hugo Chavez
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. -- Shimon Peres
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism. -- Fidel Castro
Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity. -- Thomas Sankara
Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects. -- W. J. T. Mitchell
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. -- Vladimir Lenin
Monotheism is but imperialism in religion. -- James Henry Breasted
When the people stand up, imperialism trembles. -- Thomas Sankara
The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed. -- Jerry Rubin
Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism. -- Andre Vltchek
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. -- Hugo Chavez
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. -- Malcolm X
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. -- Irving Babbitt
Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order. -- Nikita Khrushchev
You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. -- Jane Fonda
Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. -- Lech Walesa
Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. -- Joseph Stalin
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it. -- Amilcar Cabral
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. -- Hannah Arendt
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. -- Charles Sumner
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa. -- Assata Shakur
Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled. -- Robert Gilpin
The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism. -- Hugo Chavez
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war. -- Bill Ayers
... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism. -- Fidel Castro
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. -- Wendell Willkie
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. -- Molly Ivins
Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated. -- Lin Biao
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top -- Sarah Vowell
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. -- Bill McKibben
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. -- Pearl S. Buck
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. -- Che Guevara
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism. -- Evan Osnos
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. -- George Ayittey
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siÃ¨cle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. -- Robert Hughes
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else. -- Chiang Kai-shek
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
While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America. -- Che Guevara
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
[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
I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy. -- Janeane Garofalo
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. -- Bertrand Russell
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice. -- Henry M. Morris
In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration. -- Viggo Mortensen
What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force. -- Howard Zinn
Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. -- Jomo Kenyatta
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death. -- Hugo Chavez
With Russia, it is almost similar to China: people there have had it up to here with the West! The Russian people suffered immensely from Western imperialism. -- Andre Vltchek
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
A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home. -- Peter Kuznick
in the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen ... -- Hannah Arendt
The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries. -- Tim Buck
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. -- Han Suyin
I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil. -- Jack D Forbes
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet, -- Hugo Chavez
The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe. -- Robert Dallek
Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes. -- Malcolm X
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel. -- Tariq Ali
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism. -- Wendell Willkie
Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism. -- Jill Stein
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord. -- Mao Zedong
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated. -- Kwame Nkrumah
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism. -- Rosa Luxemburg

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