"Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need."

Next Quote

Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build permanent arrangements in which peace between European countries is secured, freedom is secured, and growing prosperity. And that's what we have done over the last 70 years.

— Timothy Garton Ash