We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

You were the dead; theirs was the future.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.