One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Quotes
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972In 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, 1787Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925