"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way."

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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers, that is, in principle, of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good.

— Allan Bloom