Receiving a mixed reaction to his speech at the Conservative Party conference, Blackpool (14 October 1981), quoted in John Campbell, Edward Heath (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), p. 731.
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)
“First thy neighbour, and there after your own house.”
Fascinating Discourses of the 14 Infallibles.
“Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.”
Book XVIII, sec. 44.
Naturalis Historia
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
“To the glory of the most high God alone, and that my neighbour may be educated thereby.”
Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren,
Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren.
Epigraph to the Orgelbüchlein, cited from Carl Hermann Bitter Johann Sebastian Bach (Berlin: Ferdinand Schneider, 1865), vol. 1, p. 145; translation from Rush Rhees (ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), p. 182
“This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.”
Friend of My Youth (2017)
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 304
Sunni Hadith
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
Context: I am outraged and grieved by the recent attacks in some countries against Christian and minority communities. This is an offense against humanity as well as Islam. Arab Christians are an integral part of our region’s past, present and future.
Jordan is a Muslim country, with a deeply-rooted Christian community. Together, the Jordanian people make up an in- divisible society, friends and partners in building our country.
The world’s Muslims have a critical role in global understanding. Our faith, like yours, commands mercy, peace and tolerance. It upholds, as yours does, the equal human dignity of every person — men and women, neighbours and strangers. Those outlaws of Islam who deny these truths are vastly outnumbered by the ocean of believers — 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide. In fact, these terrorists have made the world’s Muslims their greatest target. We will not allow them to hijack our faith.
