Quotes About The White Man's Burden

#1. ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Ah! the learning! And the fun of it? or is it the white man's burden to know more?

Aporva Kala

#3. Take up the White Man's burden
send forth the best ye breed
go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. 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

#5. The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

Confucius

#6. You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Ben Whishaw

#9. It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

David Halberstam

#10. Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

Guy Spier

#11. I'm going to keep speaking out about what Donald Trump says, because I'm getting messages from leaders around the world who are just bewildered. They want to know what's going on.

Hillary Clinton

#12. We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.

Paul Blackthorne

#13. Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Celebration is an act of impressing sadistic someone residing in you.

Santosh Kalwar

#15. So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails to imitate its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitful. But it does frightfully matter how often humanity changes its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitless.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.

Will Sergeant

#17. It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

Ellen G. White

#18. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we
the white race
have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Gore Vidal