Immigration Quote by Stephan Talty

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

“But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I…

— Anonymous

“Based on Gulliver's descriptions of their behaviour, the King describes Europeans as "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered…

— Jonathan Swift

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott

“All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the…

— E.R. Braithwaite

“We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or…

— A.S. Byatt

“Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the…

— Libba Bray

“The people walking by seem so unreal, so removed from the world that any resemblance between them and me seems strictly genealogical. Humanoids with…

— Henry Martin

“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.”

— Edith Wharton

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa