Top 253 Imperialism Quotes & Sayings

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

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

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.

Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

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

We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

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

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

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

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

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

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

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

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

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

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

The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When the Russian people learned that imperialism was historically wrong, they set up a revolution in 1917 and overthrew imperialism at home. They then negotiated for peace separately with Germany.

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

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

We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.

Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.

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.

The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

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

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

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

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

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

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

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

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

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

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.

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

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.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

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