Imperialistic Power Quotes & Sayings

The evangelical church in America has, to a large extent, been co-opted by an American, religious version of the kingdom of the world. We have come to trust the power of the sword more than the power of the cross. We have become intoxicated with the Constantinian, nationalistic, violent mindset of imperialistic Christendom.5 — Gregory A. Boyd

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words. — Mandy Patinkin

How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and the greatest number of other creatures were supposed to be asleep! Was it because we were only permitted to catch a fleeting glimpse of those great bodies and then only in the mysterious time of a dream world, those great bodies about which man had only the slightest knowledge but perhaps one day would be permitted to examine more closely? Or was it permitted for the great majority of people to gaze at the starry firmament only in brief, sleepless moments so that the splendor wouldn't become mundane, so that the greatness wouldn't be diminished? — Adalbert Stifter

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. — Jock Sturges

We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but with those groups who are now connecting with the forces of transformation. It is not terror and violence, but trust and solidarity which will lead the new world. This is not just a wishful dream, but the objective reality of the coming epoch. — Dieter Duhm

Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority. — Saul Alinsky

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you. — Paul Mooney

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. — Bernard Malamud

Until America begins to build a moral record in her dealings with the Indian people she should not try to fool the rest of the world about her intentions on other continents. America has always been a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. — Jon Postel

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. — Karl Marx