“International law exists only in textbooks on international law.”

— Albert Einstein

The anthropologist Ashley Montagu said it in an interview with Einstein. (Source: http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/montagu-ashley_conversations-with-albert-einstein-1985.html.)
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