Juan Gonzales Quotes

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

Wealth governs this country, and wealth uses military violence to control the rest of the world as best it can.

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.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

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.

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

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The British Empire is the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

There must … be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

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.

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

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.

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

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

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

We should be lords over them…these are the politics of South Africa.