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Imperialism13 quotes
Take up the White Man's burden —
Send forth the best ye breed —
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need. — Rudyard Kipling · 1899When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. — George Orwell · 1936The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762The 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. — Joseph Conrad · 1899The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. — Winston Churchill · 1943It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole · 1772All 13 quotes →Anti-imperialism3 quotes
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. — Joseph Conrad · 1899All 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? — Reg · 1979There 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. — Edward Gibbon · 1781British Empire1 quote
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson · 1962British imperialism1 quote
Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. — David Ormsby Gore · 1962Capitalism1 quote
Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin · 1917European imperialism1 quote
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. — George Orwell · 1936India1 quote
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole · 1772Political theory1 quote
Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin · 1917Post-war Europe1 quote
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson · 1962Power of ideas1 quote
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. — Winston Churchill · 1943Roman Empire1 quote
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? — Reg · 1979United Kingdom1 quote
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson · 1962