Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

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.

Unlike more traditional conquerors, we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us.

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

…if you suffer the Englishmen to dwell in your midst, their diseases and poisons shall destroy you utterly and you shall die.