Herbert Tuttle Quotes

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

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

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

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Imperialism dies hard, especially when there are people making money.

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.

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.

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.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

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.

Our democracy has been marred by imperialism.

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

All colonies are oppressed peoples.

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.

I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

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

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

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

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

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