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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

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.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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

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