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“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”
Vaclav Havel
“A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.”
Rupert Brooke
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves”
Willa Sibert Cather
“It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.”
Richard Wilbur
“Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth”
William McKinley
“Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.”
Bedouin Proverb
“Have the French for friends but not for neighbors”
Emperor Nicephorus
“Virtue never dwells alone; it always has neighbors”
Chinese Proverbs
“If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time”
Mark Twain
