One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Quotes
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The 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, 1952Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCIntolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625