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.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

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