To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Quotes
When 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, 1984We 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, 1903When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926In 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, 1787I 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, 1940There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Our 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, 2004By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BC