The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Quotes
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCNationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Our 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, 2004The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925If 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, 1625This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006