It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.