Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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

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

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.