Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Foreignness is intrinsically stimulating. Like a good game of bridge, the condition of being foreign engages the mind constantly without ever tiring it.”… …“But…

— Being foreign: The others-the Economist

“If you travel internationally, you will feel shocked by contemptuous talk of America. To hear your fellow citizens characterized as barbarians who know nothing…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“In our foreign policy as in our own national life we need less fanfare, less stagecraft and circumventing. We need to talk sense, to…

— David McCullough

The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or…

— Bertrand Russell

“To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of…

— Paul Gagnon

“Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.”

— Mark Twain

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to…

— Vladimir Putin

“Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

— Mark Twain

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

— Benjamin Disraeli

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen…

— Agnes Repplier