Top 15 Colonist Quotes
#1. When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom (Prov. 11:2;
Alexander Strauch
#2. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.
Alex Perry
#3. If you don't execute your ideas, they die." - Roger von Oech
Stephen Guise
#4. The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
Bruce Cameron
#5. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it ...
Phil Jones
#6. Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
Robert H. Jackson
#7. We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.
Miguel Nicolelis
#8. That's what I'd ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be.
John Scalzi
#9. From the point of view of political geography we are standing on one of the frontiers of human culture; for the man inside the rubber sack it was land's end, the shore of the world.
Edward Abbey
#10. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.
Thomas A Kempis
#11. The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.
Frantz Fanon
#12. Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined
sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured
so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
Agatha Christie
#13. [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
James Joyce
#15. Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
John Calvin
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