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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

—Joseph Conrad, 1899

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

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, 1940

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

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

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

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

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762