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

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.

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.

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.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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

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

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.