Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Quotes
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCWe have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887It’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, 2011To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774