The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
~ Michel de Montaigne, translated

It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
~ Ren? Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)

All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They.
~ Rudyard Kipling, We and They, 1926

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
~ Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people.
~ James Russell Lowell, "Democracy Address," Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
~ Shri Haidakhan Babaji

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.
~ Martin H. Fischer

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
~ Isa Upanishad

Death and dice level all distinction.
~ Samuel Foote, The Minor