Walls Quotes

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

I never think that walls can protect you.

O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

The Kuomintang is now pursuing a policy of blockhouse warfare, feverishly constructing their ‘tortoise-shells’ as though they were iron bastions. Comrades! Are they really iron bastions? Not in the least! Think of the palaces of the feudal emperors over thousands of years, were they not powerful with their walls and moats? Yet they crumbled one after another the moment the masses arose. The tsar of Russia was one of the world's most ferocious rulers, yet when the proletariat and the peasantry rose in revolution, was there anything left of him? No, nothing. His bastions of iron? They all crumbled. Comrades! What is a true bastion of iron? It is the masses, the millions upon millions of people who genuinely and sincerely support the revolution. That is the real iron bastion which no force can smash, no force whatsoever. The counter-revolution cannot smash us; on the contrary we shall smash it. Rallying millions upon millions of people round the revolutionary government and expanding our revolutionary war, we shall wipe out all counter-revolution and take over the whole of China.

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

Freedom has many flaws and our democracy is imperfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.

Let's not build a wall around ourselves just when they're coming down all over the world.

If you can't bring them down economically you kill them, that's how you promote equality. You build a wall to keep them in the country. Socialism, communism, build walls to make sure people can't get out. In a country that's communist and builds a wall, there's nobody trying to get in. Works every time it's tried.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!

At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.

Walls don't fall without effort.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.