Foreigners Quotes
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Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
steve biko— We Blacks
"Never forget you are English, and that one Englishman is more than a match for half a dozen foreigners". "I don't believe in folks making a sort of mystery of themselves. I believe in being neighbourly , I do".
flora thompson— Chapter One - The House
Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.
ilana mercer— “Border Invasion Abroad, Border Betrayal at Home,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 16, 2004;“Bush/Necon Paradigm Made Explicit,” referenced, View from the Right, Lawrence Auster website, July 7, 2005.
I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.
muhammad reza pahlavi— Page 167 (The Shah's Story (1980))
foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?
periyar e. v. ramasamy— Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 511.
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
Quentin Crisp— 1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.4.
I don't object to foreigners speaking a foreign language; I just wish they'd all speak the same foreign language.
— 1972 Avanti (with I A L Diamond).
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans — convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
Saul Bellow— " A Second Half Life" (1991), p. 324
Children are all foreigners.
ralph waldo emerson— 25 September 1839
The Church in the colonies is the white people’s Church, the foreigner’s Church. She does not call the native to God’s ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.
frantz fanon— p. 42 (The Wretched of The Earth (1963))
The indigenous population is not responsible.... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.
robert kilroy-silk— Discussing a rise in HIV infections in Britain, Sunday Express, 1 December 2002
The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported.
kim il-sung— Quoted in Kim Il Sung, Master of Leadership (1976) by Takagi Takeo
We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.
william of malmesbury— Gesta Regum Anglorum of 1125. (Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066-c.1220 (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 56.)
But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?
jean-baptiste say— Book II, On Distribution, Chapter VII, Section IV, p. 340
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
jane addams— Ch. 11 (Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910))
I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world.
william cobbett— P. 59 (Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796))
Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].
Saddam Hussein— al-Dimuqratiyya Masdar Quwwa li al-Fard wa al-Mujtama, 1977, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi
When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.
paul craig roberts— "A Bankrupt Superpower", CounterPunch (2008-03-18)
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.
l. neil smith— "In Praise of Social Benefactors," [46] 18 August 2013
This is the right place for our activities to carry on the search for Truth and develop Fearlessness - for on one side, are the iron bolts of the foreigners, and on the other, thunderbolts of Mother Nature .
— Mahatma Gandhi, in Sabarmati Ashram Ahmedabad, Gujarat]. Gandhi stayed at the Ashram from 1915 to 1933, later on the Ashram was disbanded. The Ashram is a witness to many important historical events.
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.
— Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Joshua F. Speed (24 August 1855).
Unless Parliament has conferred upon the Court that power in language which is unmistakable, the Court is not to assume that Parliament intended to do that which so seriously affect foreigners who are not resident here, and might give offence to foreign Governments. Unless Parliament has used such plain terms as show that they really intended us to do that, we ought not to do it.
— Lindley, M.R., In re A. B. & Co. (1900), L. R. 1 Q. B. D. [1900], C. A. p. 544. See also Ex-parte Blain, 12 Ch. D. 522; In re Pearson (1892), 2 Q. B. 263.
We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
— Observer, London, March 9, 1957, according to Quotation by Halvard Lange. Dictionary.com.
The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as President of the United States.
— Attributed to The Chicago Times, following President Abraham Lincoln's address at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863; reported in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939), vol. 2, p. 472; no date of issue for the Times is given. This quotation also appears in Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (1951), chapter 33, p. 287, also without a specific date for the Times, citing only Sandburg. This same quotation and attribution is used in Gore Vidal, Lincoln, part 3, chapter 2, p. 494 (1984, reprinted 1985). This quotation could not be found in The Chicago Times, November 20–25, 1863.
Faith , faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God , this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.
— Swami Vivekananda, in From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission ...
Haile Selassie wanted to develop his country, but social justice was not a concept that made a great impression on him. Opinions differ over the degree to which Ethiopia's backwardness in the early 1970s was to be attributed to his policies. Unquestionably, however, the flaunting of the wealth of the aristocracy and the business class, many of them foreigners, made the poverty of the masses seem all the more terrible.
— David A. Korn (1986), Ethiopia, the United States, and the Soviet Union, p. 4
foreigners are funny
charles (writer) hamilton— Responding to George Orwell's complaint that Hamilton assumed that foreigners are comic.
This island was the dominion of my fatherand should descend to none other than myself. foreigners must go.
koxinga— James Wheeler Davidson (1903). The island of Formosa, past and present: History, people, resources, and commercial prospects. Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions. LONDON AND NEW YORK: Macmillan & co.. p. 37. Retrieved on Dec. 20 2011. (STANFORD LIBRARIES KELLY & WALSH, LD. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, AND SINGAPORE "JAPAN GAZETTE" PRESS, Yokohama)
