Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Quotes
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879This 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, 1762Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCThere is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915