No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Quotes
All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951To 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, 1764“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953