Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Quotes
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCOther nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCThe almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Do 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, 1958I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962