Fidel Castro Quotes

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

We have got over our imperial past, and the withdrawal symptoms.

His Majesty’s dominions, on which the sun never sets.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Who colonized the other – us or them? Did Algeria colonize France, or vice versa? Did Egypt colonize England, or vice versa? We are the victims...

For Carolina once ruined and destroyed, the extermination of her [England's] colonial dependencies will follow.

… and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas

The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

British Empire

The enthusiasm for colonies is dead.

I hate Imperialism whether British or Japanese or Burmese.

The British Empire is the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

With nearly every great European empire today walks its dark colonial shadow …

The gulf between imperial ideals and empire on the ground has customarily proved disillusioning not only for colonial peoples but also for some in the occupying power.

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.

But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans 400 years in time and thousands of miles in space; every continent on Earth was directly affected by it.

Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.