Curt Siodmak Quotes

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

A people that patiently lets itself be trampled, deserves to be trampled and crushed.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

Conquerors always call themselves liberators.

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert they call it peace.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

One conquered nation is one too many.

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so imperialism is in the mind of the imperialized.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

The British minister mistakes the Irish character. Had he intended to make Ireland a slave, he should have kept her a beggar. There is no middle policy … greatly emancipate or fundamentally destroy.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

When our kings succeeded to the crown of England, the ministers of that nation took a short way to ruin us … All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principle offices of the kingdom filled with such men as the court of England would be subservient to their designs.

To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.