This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Quotes
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCAll of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWhen 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, 1984