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

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

—Francis Grose, 1787

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—Margaret Mead, 1972

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

—E.B. White, 1958
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