All 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. 1655Quotes
Our 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, 2004This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927I 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, 1883Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The 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, 1952