The wealth of the country was robbed and wasted in the interest of imperialism and the foreigner. In fact, everything in this country was exploited for the foreigner. The son of the people was living in miserable conditions. He was humiliated and insulted. Had we been patient for a time, it would have only been for the greatest explosion, as our people exploded with the Army in one day and destroyed the idols who were following the foreigners.
The historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College
“E tuttavia un tempo avevano cacciato gli stranieri, e adesso tutto il paese viveva di stranieri, oppure andava in rovina quando gli stranieri non c'erano, come erano andati in rovina quando predicavano la benedizione della povertà a una società straricca.”
La valle del caos
Citazioni simili
“Straniero, cerca di fare quel che si deve quando si deve.”
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Citazioni di Aristone
“A me piacciono solo due tipi di uomini: gli stranieri e quelli del mio Paese.”
Anche le formiche nel loro piccolo s'incazzano
When I came to Cambodia in 1967, Phnom Penh was the most beautiful city in southeast Asia. Perhaps its too easy for a foreigner to romanticise such a place, but to fly across the Mekong river from beleaguered and neurotic Saigon was to reaffirm the belief that if only foreign armies would leave alone these people, they would assert their own civilization, and measure their own prosperity. Certainly there was feudalism and corruption, but there was no war, no slaughter, no napalm, and the Cambodian family was a fortress without want. And now, now this delicious city is a smouldering wreck of that vision.
Variante: Quando venni in Cambogia nel 1967, Phnom Penh era la città più bella dell'Asia sudorientale. Forse è troppo facile per uno straniero di romanzare un tale posto, ma volare sopra il fiume Mekong dal Saigon tormentato e neurotico era ribadire la mia confinzione che se gli eserciti stranieri stessero alla larga da questi popoli, eserciterebbero la loro civiltà e misurerebbero la loro propria prosperità. Certo, c'era il feudalismo e la corruzione, ma non c'era la guerra, niente strage, niente napalm, e la famiglia cambogiana era una fortezza a cui non mancava niente. Ora questa deliziosa città è una rovina carbonizzata.
You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press. But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? [...] So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.