Jose Rizal Quotes

... a renunciation of our further intention to maintain the Monroe Doctrine and would proclaim that we had joined the horde of European greed in attempting to absorb as many of the weaker powers on earth as possible.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

… an imperialist alliance

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

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

What my country needs is a safety valve for her surplus energies …. Establishing a Belgian colony in Africa will not only develop our country’s commercial interests but to raise the morale of the army and raise the merchant navy which we lack …. It is time that Belgium takes her part in the great work of civilization, following in the footsteps of England.

The United States is now, as the defunct Soviet Union was decades ago, the subversive agent of a world revolution.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons in any other land.

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.

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

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

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

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

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

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.