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Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

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 of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

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

—Margaret Mead, 1972

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

—Terence, 163 BC

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980
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