“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already”
Edward Abbey
“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
“We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.”
Pearl S. Buck
“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore”
Alex Carey
“Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know”
Annie Dillard
