The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Quotes
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006I 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, 1940By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCThe less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958The 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, 1899To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCI do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600