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

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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