Chosen Quote by John Berger

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted…

— Benjamin Barber

The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they…

— Francis Parkman

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the…

— Robert Southey

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished…

— Daniel Boone

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is…

— Daniel Alarcon

“I managed to convince myself that I’d left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as…

— Kapka Kassabova

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

— Thomas Malthus

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

— Charles Sturt

“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Takes a special kind to go another kind to stay here … Nowhere do such patriots so embrace the leaving of the place”

— Kate Tough