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

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.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

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.

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

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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.

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