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

—E.B. White, 1958

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

—Denis Diderot, 1774

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

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, 1625

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

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

—Mark Twain, 1879

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839