Refugee Quotes

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

I've always been in danger, but I don't mind.

We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.