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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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

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.

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

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.