They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.
Graham GreeneInsecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
Graham Greene