Quotes · Skopia

10 quotes

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Topic·Anti-imperialism✕clear

Insurrection-by means of guerrilla bands-is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.

Giuseppe Mazzini

1833

★ 1.9

Historical literature

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations in opposition to their inclination and interest.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1781

★ 1.9

Courtroom speech · Speech

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in har¬ mony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

1964

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.5

Political literature · Historical literature

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

The Black Jacobins · 1938

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Listen, the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front!

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.6

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

1920

★ 3.7

Anti-colonial literature · Political literature

Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them.

The Wretched of the Earth · 1961

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

If you wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans.

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.7

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Heart of Darkness · 1899

★ 3.8