The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.