We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Quotes
It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011The 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, 1899All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCIf you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953The 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, 1952Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006