Others Quotes

What will people say – in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Ought is not a word we use to other people. It is a word we should reserve for ourselves.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting evey toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn’t, and when it does, we may well reject it.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.