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In 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, 1787

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

I 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, 1940

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

—Joseph Conrad, 1899

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

Nothing 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, 1909

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774
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