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

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.