Foreigners Quotes
217 Foreigners quotes by 182 unique authors
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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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Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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
— Unknown Author
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The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could…
— Tom Standage
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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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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good…
— Lord Byron
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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with.…
— Peter Høeg
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I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come…
— Paul Wolfowitz
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it…
— Edward Sapir
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We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have…
— Unknown Author
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade…
— Unknown Author
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
— Tony Benn
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I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
— Lou Gramm
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Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to…
— Steven Biko
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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian…
— Michel Hazanavicius
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