I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Quotes
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, 2011Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915I 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, 1940Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949