When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Quotes
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, 1946Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I 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, 1940This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Children 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, 1866There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175