I do desire we may be better strangers.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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.

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.

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