Passports Quotes

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

A safe-conduct or passport contains a pledge of the public faith, that it shall be duly respected, and the observance of this duty is essential to the character of the government which grants it.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

I will not condone murder, therefore I disobey and continue to disobey Salazar., My desire is to be with God against men, rather than with men against God., If thousands of Jews can suffer because of one Catholic (Hitler), then surely it is permitted for one Catholic to suffer for so many Jews.

The open borders position may sound new and radical, but it is simply a call for the return of lost liberties. When the Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886, most of the world’s borders could be freely crossed without passports. Passport requirements had sometimes existed before and were still in place in backward Tsarist Russia, but the more liberal governments of advanced European nations regulated migration, as modern democracies regulate speech, only rather lightly and in exceptional cases, if at all. Comprehensive restrictions on international movement, which almost everyone today regards as a normal and necessary government function, are really an innovation of the twentieth century, which emerged as liberalism gave way to nationalism and socialism in the wake of World War I. Although the reasons for border control were The open borders position may sound new and radical, but it is simply a call for the return of lost liberties. When the Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886, most of the world’s borders could be freely crossed without passports. Passport requirements had sometimes existed before and were still in place in backward tsarist Russia, but the more liberal governments of advanced European nations regulated migration, as modern democracies regulate speech, only rather lightly and in exceptional cases, if at all. Comprehensive restrictions on international movement, which almost everyone today regards as a normal and necessary government function, are really an innovation of the twentieth century, which emerged as liberalism gave way to nationalism and socialism in the wake of World War I. Although the reasons for border control were often explicitly racist—such as the national origins quotas of the 1924 U.S. Immigration Act—the restrictions were also motivated by bona fide national security concerns, as well as a desire to protect native wages and welfare states from immigrant competition and foreign dependents.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely ...

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

I can only hope that the American people who have often shown their liking for my work as a painter, realizing that their access to it is hindered by institutional and governmental control, will understand the compelling motives for my gift.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

The passport changes but the blood doesn't

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Passport photos must have a neutral expression—that means no laughing, smiles, frowning. The mouth must be closed.

Our methodology is the bullet, not the ballot. You have to learn how to shoot. You have to learn how to fly planes, drive tanks, and you have to learn how to load your guns and to use missiles. You are only allowed to use nuclear weapons in that country which is 100% unbelievers. So you go to India, and if you see a Hindu walking down the road you are allowed to kill him and take his money, is that clear? Jews should be killed ... as by Hitler. People with British passports, if you fly into Israel, it is easy. Fly into Israel and do whatever you can. If you die, you are up in paradise. How do you fight a Jew? You kill a Jew. In the case of Hindus, by bombing their businesses.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things?

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.