"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
-- Alfred Adler

"United we stand, divided we fall."
-- Aesop (620 -560 B.C.)

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
-- Frank Borman

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings...I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
--Pearl S. Buck

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
-- Edmund Burke

The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border.
-- Pablo Casals

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
-- 14th Dalai Lama

"We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal.
-- Barbara Deming

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world
-- Democritus

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent … any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne

"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
-- Albert Einstein

"There is the sky, which is all men's together..."
-- Euripides (412 B.C.)

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
-- Anne Frank

We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
-- William Lloyd Garrison.

"Toleration is the best religion."
-- Victor Hugo

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."
-- Irish proverb

"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."
-- Jerome K. Jerome

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
-- Pope John XXIII

"As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?"
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen Keller

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
-- John F. Kennedy

"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
-- John F. Kennedy

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
-- John F. Kennedy

"The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'"
-- Abdul Ghaffar Khan

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to perish together as fools."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
-- Max Lerner.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
-- Max Lerner (The Gifts of the Magi, 1949)

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.
-- Walter Lippman

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The crest and crowning of all good,
Life's final star, is Brotherhood."
-- Edwin Markham

"There is a destiny which makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone."
-- Edwin Markham

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
-- Herman Melville

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."
-- Thomas Merton

"Love thy neighbor."
-- Thales of Miletus (640 - 546 B.C.)

"When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated."
-- Ralph Nader

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
-- Thomas Paine.

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
-- Scott Peck

"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."
-- Psalms. CXXXIII: 1

"All people are a single nation."
-- Qu-ran

"Live and let live."
-- Scottish proverb

We are members one of another; so that you ca not injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
-- Socrates

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come."
-- Charles Sumner.

"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law of nature."
-- Voltaire

"In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth."
-- J. Donald Walters

"There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind -- for wisdom."
-- J. Donald Walters

Our true nationality is mankind."
-- H.G. Wells

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