To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Quotes
I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCDo not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953It’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, 2011