The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Quotes
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175All 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. 1655All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850In 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, 1787Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774