A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

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.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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

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

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