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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

I 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, 1940

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC