Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Quotes
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850In 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, 1787No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980