The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
Leo TolstoyPatriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.
Leo Tolstoy