I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

It’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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

The 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.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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.