Foreigner Quotes
96 quotes by 86 authors
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the…
— Steven Biko
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In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
— Margaret Cho
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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
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it…
— Yao Ming
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The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
— William Cameron Townsend
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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country…
— Emma Goldman
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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any…
— Mark Twain
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We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it.…
— Noam Chomsky
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Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and…
— Natalie Dormer
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm…
— David Hockney
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The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of…
— Herbert Marcuse
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks…
— Seneca the Younger
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Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.
— Saddam Hussein
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Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It…
— Eugene Davidson
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Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home
— Pam Jenoff
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I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray…
— Charles Horton Cooley
Who Wrote These Foreigner Quotes
86 authors contributed a total of 96 Foreigner Quotes, led by these top contributors: