Quotes About Borders

If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

Safe, thought Gamache. How primal that was, how powerful. What would people do to preserve a safe harbor? They'd do what they'd done for centuries. What the French had done to save Québec, what the English had done to take it. What countries do to protect their borders, what individuals do to protect their homes. They kill. To feel safe. It almost never worked.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Along the borders of this world lie others. There are places you can cross. This is one such place.

when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, the past and the present touch and overlap.

What made a country? Borders, language, and culture. The Americans were doing away with all three. It would lead to their downfall,

For me, this was not a question of opposing voices from below to discourse from above, but of reflecting on the relation of division of discourses and division of conditions, of grasping the interplay of borders and transgressions according to which the effects of speech that seize human bodies becomes ordered or disturbed" p.227.

Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.

The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of force against anyone else within its borders.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Shrub roses readily create broad, informal hedges. Grandifloras make tall, narrow ones, while floribundas are best for low hedges. Space plants 24 inches

For Sanji, like any foreigner, a moment of uncertainty ensued. Would he be singled out for his appearance, led into an interrogation room, and sent back home for any number of reasons? The officer finally stamped his passport, scribbled the date by which he had to leave the United States, and told him to move along.

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While the United States bars FGM within its borders, there is no federal law yet that punishes parents for taking their daughters to their countries of origin for FGM. Bills to deter the transport of girls for FGM have been introduced since 2010, but have not yet passed, which means girls who do not receive an illegal FGM here may still be transported to another country.

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

You cannot cross the borders of the soul without at least once be tempted to look back… There are worlds over there. They are calling you to turn your way… familiar faces, strangers, us who have knocked countless times at its gates and they were opened for us.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

Ufologists are at a loss to explain the lack of sightings in Israel's near neighbors—it is as if the aliens, unlike most Earthlings, are aware of Israel's borders.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.