(31 quotes found)
“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
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Learn to think Imperially.”
Joseph Chamberlain
“European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles”
Cedric Belfrage
“Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.”
Camille Paglia
“A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.”
Lincoln Kirstein
“I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.”
Cindy Sheehan
“The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”
Charley Reese
“The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.”
William Jennings Bryan
“suicidal statecraft...the ultimate cause of imperial collapse.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski
