“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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

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.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.