A Quote by Rebecca West

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists. — © Rebecca West
There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

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USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. Yes, there are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.
Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain.
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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.
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.
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