By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCQuotes
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Nothing 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, 1909No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949