Undesirables Quotes

Many casinos in the United States already use facial recognition software to identify undesirables, apparently with a fair degree of success.

It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

Abstractly considered, the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg was of little consequence. They constitute a portion of the population that is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it, is never a matter of reasonable regret with any one. If they were annually swept from the stage of existence by the plague or smallpox, honest men would perhaps be much profited by the operation.

Deportation is [not] a punishment; it is simply a refusal by the government to harbor persons whom it does not want.

We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out.

Colonies ought to be Emunctories or Sinkes of States; to drayne away the filth.

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

The Man of Galilee, the Carpenter, the workingman who became the revolutionary agitator of his day soon found himself to be an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the ruling knaves and they had him crucified.

In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.

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