Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Quotes
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926I 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, 1940Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCThere is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866