Quotes About Xenophobia

What is the moral equivalent of war—not the equivalent of its carnage, its xenophobias, its savagery—but its urgency, its meaning, its solidarity? What else generates what he called the "civic temperament"?

Which of our unnoticed isms will the hindsight of future generations condemn?

See, once upon a time," Yavuz was saying, "fear was a unifying force. Back then, you could make a country strong with xenophobia. That's the old model, the nation-state fortress thing. But you can't live in a fortress when your whole way of life depends on globalized interdependence and trade. Once that happens, xenophobic tendency becomes a handicap, in Groombridge's terms a non-adaptive trait.

Monoglot, the sign of an enclosed and self-deluding country.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

Patriotism can results in racism

Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

A brand of anti-intellectual populism is running amok, eerily reminiscent of the nineteenth-century Know-Nothing movement, albeit a mirror image of it in political terms.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

But now they would believe Hamid was responsible for the death of Mamie. It suited the stories they told themselves about the dark-skinned man, the foreigner, the outsider, the Muslim.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Never again would the ignorant masses want to take up arms against other nations, or indulge in racism or xenophobia, because instead they had a nice flat with a balcony and underfloor heating.

President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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.

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