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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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foreigners
home
settling
strangers
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Cormac McCarthy |
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If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.
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foreigners
patriotism
slavery
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Michael Shaara |
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One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
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cognitive-dissonance
confirmation-bias
foreigners
philosophy
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Iain M. Banks |
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But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handsome. She was a novelty and it had become a fashion to invite her to certain parties, sumptuously attired, with her hair dressed as though for a show, and to seat her in the drawing-room as a charming decoration, just as people sometimes borrow from their friends for a special occasion a picture, a statue, a vase, or a fire-screen.
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bad-taste
bourgeois-society
foreigners
objectification
objectification-of-women
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That is all the Hegnish know about them, and all they care to know. They are too polite to say that it is a pity that foreigners exist, but if they had to think about it, they would think so.
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foreigners
nationalism
xenophobia
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.
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foreign
foreigner
foreigners
humor
humours
reason
travel
traveling
unfriendly
visitor
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David Weber |