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Quotes About Xenophobia

Malthusians believe that overpopulation will cause economic disaster and the end of civilized society. They put the blame for overpopulation—for everything, really—on the immigrant poor. It's xenophobia disguised as economic theory.
~ Sara Donati
These are some of my behavioral problems... P) Hating France
~ Mark Haddon
Embora nominalmente pertençam à sala, com o tempo, os auxiliares acomodam-se aos hábitos e práticas da cozinha e começam a adquirir a mesma visão do mundo: aquela perspetiva xenófoba e ligeiramente paranóica em relação a tudo o que possa existir para lá das portas da cozinha, o mesmo sentido de humor macabro e a desconfiança em relação ao pessoal que não pertence à cozinha.
~ Anthony Bourdain
From our point of view, human beings are astonishingly xenophobic. There are not many examples in our data base of spacefarers who are as sociologically backward as your species.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
This is as bad as the Pandora party! It's nothing less than interstellar xenophobia!
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He was not only 100 per cent American; he exacted 40 per cent of chauvinistic interest on top of the principal. He was on every occasion heard to say, "We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.
~ Sinclair Lewis
We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
~ John Steinbeck
You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.
~ Morrissey
The average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies
~ George Orwell
War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Ocea- nia never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.
~ George Orwell
Vi?š bija aizmirsis, ka vairums ?aužu sveš? zem? j?tas labi tikai tad, ja var noniecin?t t?s iedz?vot?jus.
~ George Orwell
Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.
~ Molly Ivins
We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.
~ Zachary Quinto
It is terrifying in retrospect to grasp how seriously the Torah took the phenomenon of xenophobia, hatred of the stranger. It is as if the Torah were saying with the utmost clarity: reason is insufficient. Sympathy is inadequate. Only the force of history and memory is strong enough to form a counterweight to hate.
~ Jonathan Sacks
The singular cocktail of xenophobia, individualism, defence of the rights of women and proclaimed homosexuality that Pim Fortuyn concocted in the Netherlands in 2002 was the key to a lasting electoral success. Similar features also characterize other political movements in northern Europe, such as the Vlaams Belang in Belgium, the Danish Popular Party and the Swedish far right.
~ Enzo Traverso
anti-Semitism became ever more palatable and popular among their German neighbors over the years.
~ Eric A. Johnson
Fascism is not an article for export.
~ Benito Mussolini
Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.
~ Ted Lieu
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
~ Jose Saramago
Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.
~ Tony Judt
I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
~ Conrad Black
Trump's campaign promise of a return to the imaginary past was largely a promise to transport Americans to a time when racism, misogyny, and xenophobia were mainstream attitudes. More than that: it was the promise of a new history in which a greater inclusivity not only had not happened but would never happen.
~ Masha Gessen
Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party—xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks—were finding their way to center stage.
~ Barack Obama