Foreigners Quotes · Page 5

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

— Voltaire

“Be thankful you're an American as we treat foreigners a lot worse.”

— U.S. Dept. of Fear

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

— Billy Corgan

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

— Taylor Branch

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

— Lee Child

“stability of government and dependability of laws which attracted foreigners.”

— Thomas Sowell

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

— Tony Benn

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed.…

— Gerald McKnight

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

— Max Lerner

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad…

— Max von Sydow

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies…

— Evelyn Waugh

“And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their…

— Maxim Gorky

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I…

— Olivier Martinez

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most…

— Charles Horton Cooley

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

“Being with Ken was like being with a permanently foreign friend. It was impossible to understand them, but all you really needed…

— Louise Penny

A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Afghan "negotiation phase" immediately precedes the traditional Afghan "surrender phase." This entails the following: The defeated party surrenders and then comes…

— Ann Coulter

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target…

— Mikko Hypponen

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something…

— Mikko Hypponen

Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the…

— Bashar al-Assad

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only…

— Jeremy Clarkson

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

— George Bernard Shaw

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

— Hamid Karzai

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

— Joseph Hume

“Foreigners who once colonized us, who have done nothing to help us, these foreigners have no good intentions,”

— Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad

Best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else.

— Cormac McCarthy

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

— Christopher Hitchens

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

— Terry Pratchett

“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.”

— Kate Adie

It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners.

— Michael Fassbender

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

— Italo Calvino

Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim.

— Pamela Druckerman

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

— Lance Archer

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners…

— Kim Il-sung

...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH.

— Meg Cabot