Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

You must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

The bitter and agonizing fruit from the tree of nationality…

… the idea of nationality, has caused more damage to the economic system of Europe, however extraordinary that may seem, than the idea of plunder… The stumbling block is the difficulty of separating racial groups in Europe. Apart from the large countries where war, often prolonged for centuries, has cemented the nations, the races which fought for the possession of the continent--Latin, Teuton and Slav--have remained in conflict. They are still encamped upon the ground, always in a state of hostility, yet subject to interpenetration.

… vulgar motive of national antipathy ...

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. ... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. ... I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Kill All Foreigners in 3 Months.

Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

I grew up in a Britain where 'Paki-bashing' was around in my late teens from the National Front. We also had 'Pakis Go Home,' and even 'Jewel In The Crown' attracted this sort of comment.

Hate is a problem.

I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.

People tell me to go back to my country, and I'm an American.