“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Quotes
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCThe past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787