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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.

—Maya Angelou, 2011

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

—E.B. White, 1958

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

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980
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