“Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger.”

— Larry Harvey

Radical Inclusion
The 10 Principles of Burning Man (2004)
Context: Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

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Larry Harvey 6

Founder of Burning Man 1948–2018

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist

Sens-plastique

“I do desire we may be better strangers.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

“We are human, after all, and we face difficult choices about how to exercise our power. But part of what makes us different is that we welcome criticism, just as we welcome the responsibilities that come with global leadership.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2014, Address to European Youth (March 2014)
Context: Of course, neither the United States nor Europe are perfect in adherence to our ideals, nor do we claim to be the sole arbiter of what is right or wrong in the world. We are human, after all, and we face difficult choices about how to exercise our power. But part of what makes us different is that we welcome criticism, just as we welcome the responsibilities that come with global leadership.

“Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”

Molière The Misanthrope

On peut être honnête homme et faire mal des vers.
Act IV, sc. i
Le Misanthrope (1666)

“Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.”
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

Plautus Asinaria

Asinaria, Act II, scene 4 (line 495 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what he's like.
Often quoted as "Homo homini lupus" [A man is a wolf to another man].
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)

“Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps burning, a man may make the descent without danger.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VIII, Chapter VI, Sec. 13
Context: To guard against this, we must proceed as follows. Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps burning, a man may make the descent without danger.