Colin Firth Quotes

In England, people don't like me.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

Muslims are like wild dogs. You can't deal with them, you can only kill them.

With most people, strangers are not only enemies, but inferiors.

They are a scurvy race and simply savages. We could beat hell out of them.

War always begins with the dehumanizing of the enemy through rhetoric

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fantasy of idiots.

You do not trust white people. You have said that. You don't trust Jews. You have said that. You don't trust journalists. You have said that. Well, here I am.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

All Israelis think Arabs steal cars.

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that it is something that doesn't escalate. Sometimes when times are harder they become more prevalent.

I'm sick of all the hate and anger and stuff like that going on.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.