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, 1940Quotes
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCIntolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC