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.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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

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

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.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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.

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.