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  • You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.

    Cancer   Son   Oil  
    Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated
  • 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.

    Source: bad.eserver.org
  • Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

    Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

  • Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • The foreign audiences are somewhat surprised and happy to find an American film that asks questions about American culture. There's a certain kind of cultural imperialism that we practice. Our films penetrate every market in the world. I have seen and have had people reflect to me, maybe not in so many words or specifically, but I get the subtext of it - they're somewhat charmed and surprised and happy to see an American film reflect on our culture. Because they see other cultures reflect on our culture but they don't see US culture reflecting on itself in quite the same way.

    People   Culture   World  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    "Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara". Book by Andrew Sinclair, 2006.
  • To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.

    Land   World   Firsts  
  • Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

    Hate   Care   Imperialism  
  • Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

  • As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

    Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.345, Ocean Press
  • Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

  • 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 A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1957.
  • I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

    "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.
  • Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

  • People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.

    Country   Self   People  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

  • Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

    Needs   World   Tradition  
  • Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].

    "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.
  • One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

  • The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

    Strong   Ego   Mind  
    Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.84, Vintage
  • The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

    Lying   Battle   Losing  
    Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

    "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.
  • ... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

    Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.206, Ocean Press
  • Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

    Land   Mind   Germs  
  • Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.

    Hate   Self   Talking  
    "Anthony Bourdain Talks Travel, Food, and War". Interview with John Little, blogsofwar.com. July 20, 2014.
  • In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

    Fighting   Race   Opinion  
  • 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.

    Military   Real   Moving  
    Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”
  • The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.

    Lying   Father   Hands  
  • [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

    Islamic   Mean   Thinking  
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