If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

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.

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

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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.