Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCQuotes
There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899Nothing 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, 1909In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762