The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Quotes
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, 1787All 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. 1655Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCYour worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCTo think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925I 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