Borders Quote by Amitava Kumar Download Open image “The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.” — Amitava Kumar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borders Crossings Hands Invisible Invisible hand Marketplace Politics Powerful
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Abysmal oversight at the border has allowed for crime to plague our nation. — George Santos Copy Share Image
Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“What a difference a border makes: on one side of an invisible line, food; on the other side, none. On one side, peace. On… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and… — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?' — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened. — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
The unpleasant truth is that some borders are untenable and preserving them causes conflict, not peace. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
