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There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

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

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951