Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Quotes
When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCNo man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762In 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, 1787There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004