Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Quotes
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866The 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, 1952At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850When 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, 1984France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Nothing 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, 1909There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006