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

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.