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.

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

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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.