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When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

—Euripides, 431 BC

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

In 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, 1787

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

—Terence, 163 BC

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

—Frantz Fanon, 1952

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866