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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. -- John Berger
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. -- Charles Sturt
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. -- Thomas Malthus
Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization. -- Fernando Perez
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival. -- Daniel Alarcon
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. -- Jon Stewart
They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape. -- Hannah Arendt
I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city. -- Ken Bruen
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems! -- Charles Stross
The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters. -- George William Norris
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals. -- Vayalar Ravi
I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent. -- Alfred Schnittke
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration. -- Thomas Malthus
I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent. -- Alfred Schnittke
Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper. -- Robert Southey
I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government. -- Ameen Rihani
Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia. -- Pope Francis
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. -- Harold E. Varmus
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest. -- Martin Rees
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern. -- Henry A. Kissinger
[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable? -- Doris Lessing
There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality. -- Fernando Perez
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith. -- Francis Parkman
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd. -- John Marshall
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. -- Primo Levi
All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture. -- Stefan Zweig
I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah. -- Terry Tempest Williams
We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden -- Jo Grimond

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