No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Quotes
One 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, 1940We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899