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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

Our 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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

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

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

The 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, 1899

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850