Neo-Imperialism Quotes

Imperialism is too expensive an option for the United States---whether it is beneficent imperialism … or selfish imperialism…. Any small group of insurgents can make our efforts too expensive.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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.

It would be wrong to see the re-making of Asia, much less India, as a revolt against the West. Asia has indeed been re-built on the ruins of colonialism, but not on the ruins of all that the West has come to represent.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

So long as I am Chancellor we shall not pursue a colonial policy.

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

Our democracy has been marred by imperialism.

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

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

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

In the past, the imperialism of the West, like that of the rest, was often difficult - for the doers as well as for their victims - but western states were, nonetheless, usually able to dispatch forces overseas against non-western peoples without any fear of being attacked themselves. That kind of immunity is probably now a thing of the past.

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

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.

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

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

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

An irresistible movement is bearing the great nations of Europe towards the conquest of fresh territories. It is like a huge steeplechase into the unknown … whole continents are being annexed …

Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world could be remade in the American image, that the previous bipolar world could be replaced by a unipolar one in which the U.S. was the dominant arbiter of global and regional affairs.