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, 1940Quotes
I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCTo think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCAll of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980