Natives Quotes

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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. — Robert Morley
Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in… — Corey Taylor
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs,… — Ella Maillart
The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do are tourists. Munich… — Manuel Neuer
Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it… — George Carlin
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is… — Ahad Ha'am
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good… — Thomas Szasz
For digital natives, public schools are jails — Bing Gordon
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but… — James Cook
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess,… — Christopher Columbus
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. — Agatha Christie
Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasnâ€™t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be… — Sarah Palin
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed… — Bronislaw Malinowski
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events… — Edward Sapir
To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and… — George Seldes
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to… — Jamaica Kincaid

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