(40 quotes found)
“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
“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already”
Edward Abbey
“We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.”
Pearl S. Buck
“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”
Cedric Belfrage
“That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man”
Nadine Gordimer
“It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden”
Mark Twain
“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
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
Will Rogers
