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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.