At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Quotes
In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958I 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, 1940If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812