British Empire Quotes - Page 2

• Cuando Marcus Garvey murió en 1940, el papel del Imperio Británico ya estaba siendo desafiado por la India y las crecientes expectativas de sus colonias africanas. La aspiración de Marcus Garvey a la redención africana y al restablecimiento de la entidad política soberana del Estado africano en los asuntos mundiales seguía siendo un sueño sin cumplir.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Sueño, Expectativas, Política

  "El impacto de Marcus Garvey", por John Henrik Clarke, www.raceandhistory.com.

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• Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Purpose, Western, Savagery

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Los comandantes y oficiales superiores deben morir con las tropas. El honor del Imperio Británico y del Ejército Británico está en juego.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Senior, Army, Troops

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• We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

  John Lennon

  Music, Believe, Order

  "The Beatles". Book by Hunter Davies, 1968.

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• Hitler sabe que tendrá que doblegarnos en esta isla o perderá la guerra. Si podemos hacerle frente, toda Europa podrá ser libre, y la vida del mundo podrá avanzar hacia amplias y soleadas tierras altas. Pero si caemos, entonces el mundo entero, incluidos los Estados Unidos, incluido todo lo que hemos conocido y cuidado, se hundirá en el abismo de una nueva Edad Oscura... Preparémonos, pues, para nuestros deberes, y comportémonos de tal modo que, si el Imperio Británico y su Commonwealth duran mil años, los hombres seguirán diciendo: "Éste fue su mejor momento".

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Believe, Race, Two

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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• Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

  Tony Benn

  Empires, British, Britain

  Tony Benn's Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, October 2, 1972.

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• To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

  Karl Marx

  Gun, Empires, Firsts

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• Rechacé la OBE porque no es un club al que quieras unirte cuando ves a los villanos que la han recibido. Es todo lo que considero despreciable: el mecenazgo, la deferencia a la monarquía y el nombre del Imperio Británico, que es un monumento a la explotación y la conquista.

  Ken Loach

  Thinking, Names, Looks

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• The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

  Robert Trout

  India, Use, Ugly

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• Si no dejamos de comportarnos como el Imperio Británico, acabaremos como él.

  Pat Buchanan

  Paz, guerra, imperios

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• I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Discovery, Long, India

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• I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Evil, India

  Winston Churchill Robert Rhodes James (1980). "Churchill habla: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963", Atheneum

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• You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.

  Roma Tearne

  Moving, Order, Long

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Song, Believe, Character

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.102, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

  Día de Stockwell

  Empires, Canada, Cabinets

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• When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

  Doris Lessing

  Southern, Empires, Found

  "Damehood. A cosy name that conceals some dubious choices" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2015.

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• In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire, I think that there's the subrosa feeling that we are at the end of the American century, and I think that's very, very hard for Americans to take.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Ideas, Feelings

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• I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Maps, Empires

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

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• En Inglaterra, la explosión demográfica puede relacionarse muy claramente con el enclosure of the commons que desarraigó a los campesinos de sus tierras. En la India ocurrió lo mismo: la población aumentó a finales del siglo XVIII, cuando los británicos tomaron el poder y se colonizaron las tierras indias. En lugar de que la tierra alimentara a los indios, empezó a alimentar al imperio británico. Así que hubo indigencia. La gente indigente que no tiene su propia tierra para alimentarse sólo puede alimentarse teniendo un mayor número, por lo tanto se multiplican. Es la respuesta racional de un pueblo desposeído.

  Vandana Shiva

  Tierra, números, personas

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler, he was going to live forever. Mussolini was in for 10,000 years. You had the Soviet Union, which was, by definition, going to last forever. There was the British empire -- nobody imagined it could come to an end. So why should one believe in any kind of permanence?

  Doris Lessing

  Believe, Years, Forever

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• The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.

  Dar Williams

  Empires, Foundation, Looks

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Yield, Connections

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.203

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• Siento que llevo prometida al Imperio Británico desde 1980 y esta noche me habéis dado el anillo de caballero.

  Steven Spielberg

  Tonight, Knighthood, Empires

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• Su Excelencia, Presidente Vitalicio, Mariscal de Campo Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Señor de Todas las Bestias de la Tierra y los Peces de los Mares y Conquistador del Imperio Británico en África en General y Uganda en Particular.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Doctors, Sea

  Atribuido en "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" de Anthony Appiah y Henry Louis Gates, 1999.

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