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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

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

—Desmond Tutu, 1984

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

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

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

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

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

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

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935