Western Imperialism Quotes

“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently disguised and presented as "globalism, the sole ideology of the 21st century and the future.”
― Sov8840

“You cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Our names (Global South) are not doormats of empire, our dust is larger than Greece and Rome.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Colonizers were the real cannibals of history, out to civilize humans with far advanced society – suffering of the Global South was not bad luck or destiny, just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Decolonization Anthem (Excerpt)

We are children of the Global South,
not a lost cause or subjects of pity,
not tax breaks in a donor’s ledger,
nor footnotes in whitewashed history.

Our lands are rich with brains,
our soil is rich with minerals,
our veins pulse with creation,
hearts bright with civilization.

They looted our gold,
then sold us “aid” –
they burnt our libraries,
then sold us “education.”

Colonizers were the real cannibals of history,
out to civilize humans with far advanced society –
suffering of the South was not bad luck or destiny,
just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Own your color, your accent, own your stories, your theologies, be proud of your sweat, your stubborn dignity – for the North wrote itself as civilized, but we, the Global South, authored humanity. They told us, history is white, holiness is western, progress is european – but the hands that built the world, with science, medicine, poetry, philosophy, astronomy and mathematics, were black, brown and indigenous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ethics 101: do not take ethics lessons from America. Theology 101: do not take divinity lessons from the Vatican. Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West. Economics 101: don't take economy lessons from rich white men.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ethics 101: do not take ethics lessons from America.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Economics 101: don’t take economy lessons from rich white men.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Outside the Gutters of West
(Sonnet 2679)

If you grew up with western media,
you get brainwashed into asking,
why are most terrorists muslim!
But grow up and study actual history
of the human race, then you start asking,
why is every terrorist white!

To look at Islam through western lens is like
looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes,
the same is with Sindh, the same is with China,
the same is with Africa, and Latin America.

Objectivity is an impediment to understanding -
if you yourself are not right smack in the middle
of the experience, you have zero grasp of the truth,
even if your head is full with facts and figures.

But then again, this is not something
a stubborn eurocentric mule can fathom,
even to entertain the possibility
that the prized imperial commodity
of objectivity could be a fallacy,
you have to have a decolonized mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“To look at Islam through western lens is like looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“To look at Islam through western lens is like looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes, the same is with Sindh, the same is with China, the same is with Africa, and Latin America.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Most white scholars eventually turn out to be just another colonial twit, no matter how brilliant, how learned they are, because animal conditioning doesn't wear off with mere education of the intellect - your soul must be disinfected of colonial filth, which is not possible until you intrinsically embody the pain, indignity, and humiliations of the oppressed, subjected through generations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock