Carrie Lam Quotes

No people likes to be ruled by foreigners.

Our form of government is ill adapted to the responsibilities which inevitably follow permanent limitation of the independence of other peoples.

When I consider the objections put forward to the grant of self-government I can hardly keep my patience. What is it that they say? They say that we are not educated enough to get self-government. My answer is: whose fault is it? For the last 150 years you have been governing this country and yet you have not succeeded in educating the people of this country to such an extent that they may be fit for governing themselves.

For our [Japanese] own safety, we must govern this country [Korea]. We hope that in time the Koreans will realize that they need our assistance. They can do nothing by themselves.

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

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.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

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

If we are not represented, we are slaves.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

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

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.

It is rather hard that we are to dance to the fiddle of this dirty little abortion of an imperium.

So long as the sun shines, the Transvaal will remain British territory.

Part of the process of colonization (cultural conquest and domination) is the replacement of the celebrated drugs of the colonized with the celebrated drugs of the colonizer.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

Cambodia is an independent country that is the slave of two.

I didn’t fight the Belgians only to have my country colonized a second time.