(291 quotes found)
“The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows”
Samuel Butler
“I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.”
Mark Twain
“It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.”
Frank Robinson
“I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!”
Kevin Costner
“But since the year 1630. the place began to be of more plenty and security, for the Indians, though not subdued, were terrified to a suspension of arms, the Planters then first began to fence their grounds and plant Corn... that they were able to help their neighbour Plantations.”
William Berkeley
“The study of Japanese thought is the study of Indian thought.”
D.T. Suzuki
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian”
Philip Henry Sheridan
“She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the time the rain had made her clothes cling to her body she looked more than naked, but she did not evince any confusion”
Jacques Casanova
“You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.”
American Proverb
“The Jews of India are unique in that they're Indians before they're Jews because their society is so welcoming toward them.”
Dan Zuckerman
