The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Quotes
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, 2006There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883I 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, 1940Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887