Foreigners Quotes
217 quotes by 189 authors
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My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
— Brigitte Bardot
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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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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they…
— Harry Browne
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
— Michael Caine
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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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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best…
— John Henrik Clarke
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There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint…
— J. William Fulbright
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like…
— Margaret Mead
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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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The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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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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Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
— Gore Vidal
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
— Joan D. Chittister
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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I…
— Mark Twain
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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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[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;…
— Rudolph Rummel
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
— Octavia Butler
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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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