One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Quotes
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866This 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, 1946Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCTo think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951