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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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.

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

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

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

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.

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.