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

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.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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

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

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.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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