Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCQuotes
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745In 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, 1787All 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. 1655Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958