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A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

—George Mikes, 1946

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

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

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—Terence, 163 BC

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

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762