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Quotes on Imperialism
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or
at least to control the government or resources of another people.
-John T. Flynn
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should
have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
-Vladimir Lenin
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all
peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
-Irving Babbitt
Imperialism is a paper tiger.
-Mao Tse-Tung
We could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for self-government - and they
would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was ... there was
nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and
civilize and Christianize them.
-U.S. President William McKinley, 1899, on the Filipinos
Can no one doubt that the result of the competition of the races will be survival of the
fittest?
-Josiah Strong
Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.
-Rudyard Kipling
We have taken up the white man’s burden
Of ebony and brown;
Now will you tell us Rudyard,
How may we put it down?
-from The New World (1899) in response to Kipling’s poem
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald's
cannot flourish without McDonnel Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
-Thomas L. Friedman 1999