Habits Quote by Jonathan Swift

“But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I…

— Anonymous

“There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify. You think…

— Charles Stross

“These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for.…

— Adam Nevill

“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and…

— Herman Melville

“I wish you to recollect that the greatest conquerors are not always the greatest kings. The nations of the earth have often been subjugated…

— Audrey Truschke

“Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown…

— Alain de Botton

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall…

— William Shakespeare

“The writer H. P. Lovecraft would later provide an example of the animosity Americans felt toward the newcomers in a letter to a friend…

— Stephan Talty

“What just cause can be found for the encounter of so many nations, or what hatred inspired them all to take arms against each…

— Jordanes

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is…

— Cecil Rhodes

“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or people he…

— Tom Cain