“When the pious fools come up against the godless pagans who own Judea, the result is what might be called diplomatic incidents.”

Act III, scene 1. Similar thought by Sir Thomas Browne.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

Book VI, Ch. 6
Amelia (1751)

Pt. I, The Unknowable; Ch. V, The Reconciliation
First Principles (1862)

Call to the Nation

The War On Drugs Is Lost (1995)
Context: More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing. These fatalities include, perhaps most prominently, drug merchants who compete for commercial territory, but include also people who are robbed and killed by those desperate for money to buy the drug to which they have become addicted.
This is perhaps the moment to note that the pharmaceutical cost of cocaine and heroin is approximately 2 per cent of the street price of those drugs. Since a cocaine addict can spend as much as $1,000 per week to sustain his habit, he would need to come up with that $1,000. The approximate fencing cost of stolen goods is 80 per cent, so that to come up with $1,000 can require stealing $5,000 worth of jewels, cars, whatever. We can see that at free-market rates, $20 per week would provide the addict with the cocaine which, in this wartime drug situation, requires of him $1,000.

Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 3, Modes of Production, p. 73.

On the USA, said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 112.
Interviews

The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

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The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)