“Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?”

Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 16 : Markets p. 149

Nāsarina, T., & Chakraborty, M. (2018). Split: A life.

Speech in Saginaw, Michigan (29 September 2000), http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-553138.html referring to a widely reported dispute in the Klamath region of Oregon between farmers with irrigation rights and Native Americans with fishing rights.
2000s, 2000

Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 78)

"A Sketch of the Past" (written 1939, published posthumously)

2011, Address on interventions in Libya (March 2011)
Context: If we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.
It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen. And so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress, I authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce U. N. Security Council Resolution 1973.

Mother Night (1961)