Josiah Strong 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.

As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

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.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The idea of progress has a couple of contradictions … it leads to Eurocenterism….

The industrialized world was dominating the processes of change in the Third World, in particular in the Islamic world. And, that domination resulted in educational processes that were shaped by the First World.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

We never make conquests or ask any other nation to let us establish ourselves in their country as the English, the French and the Dutch have done.

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

If France does not seize this most beautiful part of America and set up a colony, [...] the English colony which is becoming quite large, will increase to such a degree that, in less than one hundred years, it will be strong enough to take over all of America and chase away all other nations.

He was in time to witness the destruction of the Summer Palace at Peking--the act by which Lord Elgin, in the name of European civilization, took vengeance upon the barbarism of the East.

Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity

The control of China by Japan … is sharply and bitterly antagonistic to the white man’s civilization. This would be the worst calamity…. The future belongs to the white race; it does not belong to the yellow, not the black, not the olive-colored. It belongs to the blond man …

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.

You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They're arrogant. They're on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.

People who put Europe in the center of the universe, they're very fragile.

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

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