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.

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

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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