Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Quotes
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCDo not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839