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When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

A 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, 1946

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

Nothing 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, 1909

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762