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

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

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.

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

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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.

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

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