We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.