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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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.