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

—Denis Diderot, 1774

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

—Terence, 163 BC

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

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

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

—Hebrews, c. 60

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762