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

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

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

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