“Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.” BookReasonMomentsHandsCuttingObjectsWallBearsMiracleWitnessFurnitureCeilingsColonizationFingernails Author:C. S. Lewis
“There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.” TryingCarefulBe CarefulIdeologicalColonization Author:Pope Francis
“Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.” HumansDoeImportantMatterBeliefMemoriesCommonGroupsBloodTypeObjectivesCustomsSubjectiveFormationSimilarityDescentMigrationColonization Author:Max Weber
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.” FactsOrderModernCivilizationProjectsMissionsAspirationInternalsRhetoricUniformityColonization Author:James C. Scott
“The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.” IsraelObstaclesPalestineColonizationArab Israeli Conflict Author:Jimmy Carter
“I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.” UnderstandingHalfColonization Book:The Colonizer and the Colonized Source: The Colonizer and the Colonized
“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.” MenWorldHumansMayMeanGovernmentAgeEarthGrowsNaturalSpaceLimitsSurvivalResourcesSafetyPressesPopulationScalesImmortalityDesperateGuaranteesMischiefNatural ResourcesDisarmamentColonizationWorld Government Author:Poul Anderson
“The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.” WholeProblemPurposeEnergyNationsSpaceViewsCommonMankindParticularConflictIdealsInternationalPursuitUndertakingsPreoccupationColonizationCommon Purpose Author:Louis J. Halle
“This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLooksIdeasWholeMomentsGrowthSpaceIssuesEffectsAwarenessActivityLimitsConceptsResourcesFundamentalsPsychologicalDepressingExpansionScenariosCapsStraightforwardColonizationAvailabilityIndustrializationVery Depressing Author:Rusty Schweickart