Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hobsbawm

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Eric Hobsbawm

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .

Noam Chomsky

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.

Pope Francis

Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

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.

Michael Assael

His thinking was a little off and too complicated.

Luke Ridnour

I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1.

Alex Jones

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Sharon Stone

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Kurt Ritchie

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

William Wilberforce

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

AJ Michalka

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

Allan Carr

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

Allan Carr

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

Zoe Saldana

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Malcolm X

You can't have capitalism without racism.

George Gilder

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

George Gilder

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

Nelson Mandela

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Joe Slovo

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.