""Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added……" — Robert Anton Wilson
""Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others.""
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Robert Anton Wilson
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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
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