"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
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