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If 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, 1625

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

All 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. 1655

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

—George Mikes, 1946

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

—Euripides, 431 BC

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958
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