We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Quotes
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCThere is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958