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

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.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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

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.

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