Robert Wyatt Quotes

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Nothing is gained by military occupation. All occupations are failures.

We Beate the Savages outt of the Island burned their howses Ransaked their Temple Tooke down the Corpes of their deade kings from out of their Toambes And caryed away their pearles.... The Salvages still contineweinge their mallice Ageinste us.

White Man’s Road Thru Black Man’s Home!

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

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

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

They are a scurvy race and simply savages. We could beat hell out of them.

You may kill me, but don’t think that I am the only white man in the country. There are many others who will be willing to avenge my death, and let me tell you that in less than two years from now there won’t be an Arab left in the entire country now held by your people.

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

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now at least he will know what he is fighting against.

What was new in the imperialism of Germany and Japan in World War II was the far more ruthless treatment of subject populations.

Talk not to me of peace. Ireland is not at peace, it is smothered war. England has sown her laws as dragon's teeth, and they have sprung up as armed men.

I fought against Palestinians. I saw them.

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Sometimes I think that if we have to go back, then it certainly won't be to Jerusalem. Not to the Jerusalem beset with racism that we left at the height of the last Gaza war.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.