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I`ve always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

- Cindy Sheehan

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

- Fidel Castro

What I want above all is to destroy the idea of culture. Culture is an alibi of imperialism. There is a Ministry of War. There is a Ministry of Culture. Therefore, culture is war.

- Jean-Luc Godard

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

- Paul Robeson

It`s a twisted little look at cultural imperialism as refracted through a relationship between a trust-fund stoner and a male prostitute, ... It`s really fun.

- Alan Ball

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

- Allen Holmes

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

- Allen Holmes

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.

- Andrew Joudrey

The shift, by the Anglo-Dutch Liberals and their financier-oligarchical rivals and partners, away from emphasis on crown colonies to more or less global financier-oligarchical tyranny, is aptly reflected by a shift of emphasis to the essential predicates of imperialism (e.g., `permanent regime-change` and `permanent warfare`) from the emphasis on the optional predicate of colonial territory. In both variants, emphasis upon colony, and emphasis on globalized financier-oligarchical power, the sovereign nation-state is the adversary which the imperialist must continually move to subvert and destroy.

- Anita Dunn

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not an agent of imperialism, ... Don`t try to impose your opinion in this conflict if you`re not aware of facts.

- Avi Rubin