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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

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

—Terence, 163 BC

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, 1625

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850
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