Jodi Picoult Quotes
You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.
Picoult, Jodi. The Storyteller. Emily Bestler Books, 2013.
The brilliant inventor of the telegraph had a dark side. He was a virulent Catholic hater and a paranoid opponent of immigration. He was one of the leading political figures expressing these views and the author of several major publications including the one this quotation comes from.
The memorandum articulating the new proposed policy is referred to as “the containment memo.”
This quotation was and is still used by many when discussing the Berlin Wall.
The great wall of China was built just as much to keep the Chinese in as to keep the barbarians out.
The Chinese 1st Emperor had unified China by brutal war. His troops and government were more sophisticated than the others and they were particularly sophisticated about drafting soldiers, forcing the civilian population to manufacture weapons for the huge military and to levy and collect taxes. Many people in the conquered provinces fled from China. The Emperor responded to the outside ‘barbarians’ and the fleeing Chinese by connecting the many walls that existed on the Chinese border into one unified wall as much to keep his labor force in China as to keep others out.
The picture is a modern artist’s rendition.
Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American writer. Picoult has published 26 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.
