“It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore”
Alex Carey
“People would have loved to have had contact with foreign missionaries in 1902. But it was real difficult to come back once you got there. Now you can go to a mission (trip) in Honduras and get back by the end of the month.”
Jim Lewis
“They [the military] are there, but they don't know how to talk to those people, which the missionaries did. It's very odd situation.”
Samuel Olson
“Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already”
Edward Abbey
“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”
Henry Louis Mencken
