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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.