“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
“Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.”
“All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics...”
“The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.”
“I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.”
“Humanity, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.”