“There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner ...” — Charles Horton Cooley Quote

“There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.”

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”

“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”

“I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.”

“It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.”

“I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.”