One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Quotes
Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCA 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, 1946All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980