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

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

—George W. Bush, 2004

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927

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

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

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

—Tony Blair, 2006

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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