Neocolonial Quotes & Sayings

Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French. — Thomas Sankara

All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who'd just caught prey - which boded ill for Silverspires. — Aliette De Bodard

At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better. — Peter Salovey

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. — Eduardo Galeano

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"
are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket
to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister? — Oswald Chambers

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose

When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do the things you are meant to do. When you are purpose driven, you have learned to listen to your intutition and never let no get in your way. — Rhonda Britten

I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors, — Zacarias Moussaoui

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days. — Cilla Black

As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. "Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea. That is what says the Worrold Alm-in-ack."

Rick and Scotty laughed. It was like old times to hear Chahda quoting from The World Almanac. A Bombay beggar boy, he had educated himself with only the Almanac for his textbook, and he had laboriously memorized everything in it. — John Blaine

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes ... have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it. — Alfred Hitchcock

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy De Rothschild

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. — R.A. Lafferty

I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next Star Wars. I think it's something else that will be fresh and original. — Kevin Feige