The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Quotes
A 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, 1946There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762In 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, 1787I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175The 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, 1952All 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. 1655