Quotes on Imperialism - Daniel Aaron Lazar



Quotes on Imperialism

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

-John T. Flynn

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.

-Vladimir Lenin

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

-Irving Babbitt

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

    -Mao Tse-Tung

We could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for self-government - and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was ... there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them.

-U.S. President William McKinley, 1899, on the Filipinos

Can no one doubt that the result of the competition of the races will be survival of the fittest?

-Josiah Strong

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

We have taken up the white man’s burden

Of ebony and brown;

Now will you tell us Rudyard,

How may we put it down?

-from The New World (1899) in response to Kipling’s poem

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnel Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

-Thomas L. Friedman 1999

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