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Letter "M" » missionaries
«When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.»
«European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles»
«The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already»
«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
«We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.»
«Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: missionaries, nuisances
«If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.»
«I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries»
«It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden»
«Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not»

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