A Quote by Jim Harrison

We are all naturally xenophobic.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
American - Novelist
December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

Jacob Zuma

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Carson McCullers

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

P. J. O'Rourke

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Alexei Navalny

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

Maajid Nawaz

If saying 'Italians first' is xenophobic, then I don't know what to say.

Matteo Salvini

When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.