Sukarno Quotes

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

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

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.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

We will bring imperialism to its knees.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

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

All colonies are oppressed peoples.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

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

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

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

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

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.