Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Quotes
I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCIt’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCChildren are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCTo think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953