273 Quotes About Borders

It is the right of every sovereign nation to determine who can and who cannot legally enter within its borders.

When we image borders, we fail at imaging God.

THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on maps: they were lines that did not exist in reality and created some of the most artificial borders the world has seen. An attempt is now being made to redraw them in blood.

It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your concerns are. I'll just take what I want.

The world is full of countries that have only come into existence in the last couple of hundred years, or even in the last few decades, while changes to borders are happening every day.

PARTITION'are your drains clean of blood now? do you recall the names, and faces of your own people? did your countrymen get to die right like human beings? butchered sisters and mothers still wait by the windows, with no lantern. that was no proper farewell past midnight. minarets whisper your ghazals to an empty sky, Koklass’ know the borders too. what have you done, sir?

We're exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus.""Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.

I tried to make my body as heavy as possible as I lay there on the frozen river