Imperialism · Skopia

Quotes

13

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

The White Man's Burden · 1899

★ 7.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract · 1762

★ 3.9

Essay · Political literature

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Shooting an Elephant · 1936

★ 3.9

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

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Books

7

History of the Peloponnesian War

431 BC★ 8.2

The Histories

440 BC★ 7.5

Orientalism

1978★ 7.0

The Great Game

1990★ 6.4

Lawrence in Arabia

2013★ 5.7

Open Veins of Latin America

Eduardo Galeano

1971★ 5.7

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Movies

1

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

1979★ 9.7