Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Quotes
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958