Cecil Rhodes Quotes

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...

Destiny beckons us to hold and civilize Mexico.

We have a full right, by our own best wisdom, and then even by compulsion to dictate terms and conditions to them [Native Americans] .... The Indian must be made to feel he is in the grasp of a superior.

Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.

It is through the European that civilization arrives ... precisely because of their superiority, the civilized people our responsible for an evolving world.

The mission of colonization cannot be other than a mission of high civilization.

The whole history of the world, on its broader lines, has been one of race conflict, wars, subjugation or extinction.

National pride may be a valuable possession, but when it becomes consciousness of racial superiority it ceases to be an Imperial virtue.

... a fixed obsession on Anglo-Saxon superiority.

I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race..

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.

When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.