If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Quotes
To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCOf troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCIt’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850A 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, 1946No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I 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, 1940Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929