Top 1200 American Imperialism Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

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

Refugees, imperialism, all the things that we are facing right now. What are we going to do with that? What's the moral imperative? Where do we sit with all that, as a worldwide community?

Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

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.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living.

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.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

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.

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.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

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

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

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

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be better than the American because you aren't American. You have to do your own stuff.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

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.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

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.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.