You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

Civilization has not yet started. We haven't learned to respect life. After our brotherhood feeling becomes rigid then only will real progress start.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

No civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included.

If we do not get a recognition of our interdependence, the Western civilization that we now have is almost certain to disintegrate. (October 1974)

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.