Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCQuotes
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCI am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCDo not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812In 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, 1787This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946