Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCQuotes
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCBy nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCThe conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866