One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.