Sam Gibbons Quotes

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Imperialism is a false system for reasons which all but imperialists now accept.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

New York is a woman / holding, according to history, / a rag called liberty with one hand / and strangling the earth with the other.

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

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

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

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

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

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

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.

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

If gold was found anywhere on the globe, that region would shortly be governed by English speakers.

Look how the whole capitalist world is stretching out long arms towards the barbarous world and grabbing and clutching in eager competition at countries whose inhabitants don't want them; nay, in many cases, would rather die in battle, like the valiant men they are, than have them

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

Our democracy has been marred by imperialism.