When you name yourself, you always name another.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.