Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain. Take up the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill All the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

Part of the process of colonization (cultural conquest and domination) is the replacement of the celebrated drugs of the colonized with the celebrated drugs of the colonizer.

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

Unlike more traditional conquerors, we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us.

The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

After WWII .... the West exchanged the old racist coinage for new currency. "Uncivilized" became "underdeveloped". "Savage people" became the "third world". There was a genuine change of heart away from racism and toward respect for equality, but a paternalistic and coercive strain survived.

We should be lords over them…these are the politics of South Africa.

Plans are all based on the assumption that the land belongs to the white man and that the native was designed to be the settler’s servant.

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

Mexico seems a doomed victim to Anglo Saxon cupidity and love of dominion.

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so imperialism is in the mind of the imperialized.

We have a full right, by our own best wisdom, and then even by compulsion to dictate terms and conditions to them [Native Americans] .... The Indian must be made to feel he is in the grasp of a superior.

He was in time to witness the destruction of the Summer Palace at Peking--the act by which Lord Elgin, in the name of European civilization, took vengeance upon the barbarism of the East.

Colonial administrations may have been racist and exploitative, but they did at least work seriously at understanding the people they were governing.

People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle.