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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

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

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

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

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

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, 1940

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

—William Hazlitt, 1823

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC
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