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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

—Euripides, 431 BC

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

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, 1952

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951
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