Absurdity Quote by Thomas Huxley

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“This was mere unfounded prejudice--that seems obvious to me--because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there were those…

— Italo Calvino

“Maybe I have merely undergone a great, slow disintegration. And my struggle against that disintegration is just that: is just trying to give it…

— Clarice Lispector

“Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

— Jo Grimond

“The long-term effect of this has been to open Western societies to immigration, and to impart an ideal of citizenship that, it is hoped,…

— Roger Scruton

“All immigration is based on misapprehension.”

— Mavis Gallant

“We may abandon a holistic, metaphysical ideal of natural law reconciled with cultural configurations; but we cannot abandon a vision of a humanity freed…

— Mark Murphy

“She then laid more aggressively into her ex-partner and his philosophy, which she felt was disconnected from the reality that she had just experienced:…

— Benoît Peeters

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

— Salman Rushdie

A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race…

— Immanuel Kant