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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

—Joseph Conrad, 1899

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

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

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

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

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927
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