If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Quotes
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935All 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. 1655Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCI 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, 1940