63 Colonial Quotes for You to Enjoy

Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s. Jacob Weisberg

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In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations. Junichiro Koizumi

Suffering People Past Tremendous Rule Those Colonial Through Countries For The People Particularly Caused Nations In The Past Japan Asian Aggression Many Damage

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays. Kate Christensen

Food Creative Become Settlements Tried Outdo Atlantic Rural Scattered Colonial Hospitality Had Like Concern Another America Central Across Displaying

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese. Kevin Kwan

Family Would More Colonial Term Call Traditional Were Chinese

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained. Lawrence Osborne

World Simplicity Teenager Dread Shabby Brought Colonial Written Obsessed Over Read Without Being Your Desert Right Consciousness

The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State, blows that attracted the notice and attention of colonial dissidents in Asia and Africa. Linda Colley

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours. Martin Jacques

Attitude War Down Backward Neighbours Restoration Adopted Colonial Mainly Towards Most Looked Identify Sought Continent West Years Itself Inferior After Japan Asian Next

There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world. Martin Jacques

Ignorance People World Problems Hypocrisy Complain Rule Religious Exactly Minorities Exactly What About Colonial Around Historical Midst Ethnic Meant European Deep Europeans Profound

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday. Michael Ashcroft

War Birthday Father Made Before Month Promoted Colonial February Recovery Had He His Survived Officer Died Full Fortunate Captain Wartime Injuries Eventually Satisfying Servicemen Career

Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge. Michael Oren

Mirror Type Back Say States East Eastern Would Emerge More Colonial Tendency Could Like Look George Lot George Washington Times American Going Middle Middle East Middle Eastern Fantasy Washington United United States Fractured

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. Mike Leigh

Integrity Will Become Own Our Danger Compromise Colonial Remain Never True Maintain Industry Principles Real Revival Hollywood Should Film Servants Film Industry Film-Makers British Need

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. Mira Nair

Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690. Murray Rothbard

The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers. Pankaj Mishra

Struggle Rulers Out Threw Colonial Mainly Were Deceit Dutch After Inheritance Bribery Who Keen Coercion Four-Year Preserve

Italy has no colonial past in Iran. Paolo Gentiloni

Past Colonial Iran Italy

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation. Pat Robertson

Book Nation Christian Cite Examples Colonial Writings Leaders Countless Period Documents America Intended Foundational Christian Nation

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. Paul Robeson

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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels. Rae Carson

Education Science Writing Wonderful College Preparation Secondary Secondary Education Took Out Colonial Could Emphasis Major Courses Era Expansion Westward American Social Fantasy Turned Many Novels

I'll tell you what colonial experience is. Ryszard Kapuscinski

You Experience Tell Colonial

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians. Ryszard Kapuscinski

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