Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Quotes
Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866