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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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