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“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”
“Our neighbor, Hugo du Toit, was a very handsome Afrikaner, who, with his two sisters, was a close friend of Louis Botha, the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and also a close frie...”
“We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but about the psychology of globalization. It's like the psychology of a battered woman being faced with her husband again and being...”
“I, he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, am the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara Sant. He was from Brontes, then. Which might explain the eyesshe thought again of certa...”
“Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writer...”
“It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.”
“It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this ...”
“Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether its pure accident. So many people have had the whole course of their lives changed by something perfectly simple lik...”
“One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Isla...”
“Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When the colonized uses them, the leftist coloniz...”
“You have to hate them, you mean? You cant decide: I will or I wont hate them?Amar did not completely understand. But I hate them now, he explained. The day Allah wants me to stop hating them, Hell ...”
“Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions”
“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”
“To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence...”
“How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in the savagery of these oppressed peasants who have absorbed it through ev...”
“Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light ...”
“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.”
“Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. Thats nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, ...”
“Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - t...”
“In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means ...”
