This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

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

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.