If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Quotes
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883I 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, 1940When 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, 1984The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926If 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, 1625Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866