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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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.

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

When you name yourself, you always name another.