Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Tabucchi

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

Calvin Coolidge

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Bill Maher

I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?

Dennis Miller

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Desmond Tutu

Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

Desmond Tutu

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Anna Quindlen

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.

Anna Quindlen

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Carl Sagan

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

Carl Sagan

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.

Carl Sagan

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

Bill Bryson

There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.

Bethany Mota

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Bethany McLean

I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

Bethenny Frankel

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

Bethenny Frankel

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

Bethenny Frankel

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Carrie Brownstein

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

Don Cornelius

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?