Foreigners Quotes
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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.
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))
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.
Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
Nancy Freeman Mitford— 1945 Uncle Matthew. The Pursuit of Love, ch.15.
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
— 1869 The Innocents Abroad, ch.19.
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).
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
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.
ronald knox— God and the Atom (1945). London: Sheed & Ward, pp. 53–54
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.
By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.
erich ludendorff— Quoted in "My War Memories, 1914–1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919
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.)
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))
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton— Elliot's Debates, volume 1, p. 463. (29 July 1788)
The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.
christopher hitchens— "P.J. O'Rourke: Not Funny Enough" (1990)
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
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.
Of course, Scotsmen are not foreigners. They are fellow-subjects of ours, and they are in the same position as any other fellow-subjects, with the important exception that their system of jurisprudence differs in very important particulars from ours . . . and to call a Scotsman an English subject is a perfect absurdity.
— Higby, L.J., Mac Iver v. Burns (1895), L. R. 2 C. D. [1895], p. 637; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 221-222.
Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.
— “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.
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
mark twain— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, ch. 19 (1869)
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.
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)
They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
mark twain— Ch. 19. (The Innocents Abroad (1869))
