The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Quotes
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879