Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Quotes
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, 1952All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949A 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, 1866Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCThere are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980