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

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.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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.