In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law. Alexis de Tocqueville
Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics – this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence. Alain Aspect
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. James Frazer
Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it. Napoleon Bonaparte
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance. Ralph Vaughan Williams
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me. V. S. Pritchett