Archive

Quotes

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

—Francis Grose, 1787

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

—Maya Angelou, 2011

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

—Margaret Mead, 1972

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

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

—Euripides, 431 BC

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600
  •