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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

The 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, 1952

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

—Euripides, 431 BC

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

Our 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, 2004
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