How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! Nikos Kazantzakis
We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these. Vladimir Lenin