8 Movie Quotes about Imperialism (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about imperialism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I've gotten a map of Africa, and I've seen how, from its wide northern top to its southern end, the empires of Europe have carved it into little pieces.

Quote from Destination Freedom

2 Crucify their leaders. Sell the rest as slaves.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

3 We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4 By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society!

Michael Palin as Sir Galahad in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5 All others are barbarians, and it is our moral duty to conquer them, enslave them, and, if necessary, destroy them.

Aristotle in Alexander the Great (1956)

6 You're to persuade your people that their resistance to Rome is stupid. It is worse than stupid, futile! For it can end in only one way, extinction for your people!

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

7 We marched on their capital. Barbaric city, but fascinating. Or was, till we destroyed it. Now it's nothing but ashes.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

8 Thank you, no. I do not support the work of imperialist stooges.

Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove