Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Quotes
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCThe almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903