Top 286 Colonial Quotes & Sayings

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me.

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely viewed, at least in the West, as a benevolent hegemon. In the non-West, the US was often perceived as a supporter of the colonial powers in their struggle to maintain control over their colonial possessions, and was viewed far more critically, especially by emerging elites that were more inclined to socialist development paradigms than to the capitalist ethos favoured by Washington.

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

In 'Colonial Marines' you come into the game as a marine, and how you play depends on your equipment and by the choices you're making in real time.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.

To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

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.

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.

The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.

Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away. My hope is to see it replaced, without any bloodshed, with a democratic, secular and lay state – for example on the borders of historic Palestine – and where Palestinians and Israelis could live under equal rights of citizenship without ethnic and religious discrimination. It's a wish that I hope will soon become a reality.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account of history.

Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

The gulf between imperial ideals and empire on the ground has customarily proved disillusioning not only for colonial peoples but also for some in the occupying power.

India has always stood with Africa on the freedom struggle against colonial powers.

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.