#missionaries

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. ↗

— Colin Firth

#different #doing #going #hitting #idea

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado. ↗

— Trey Parker

#got #missionaries #need #you

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#corporations #missionaries #neoliberalism #ngos #anger

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#because #believe #better #business #care

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. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #country #get #heaven #into

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cannibals #constituents #dinner #found #had

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. ↗

— Emo Philips

#cd #dutch #german #missionaries #released

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. ↗