“Thanks to the pathological alienation which the nationalist idiocy has established and still establishes among European peoples, thanks as well to the short-sighted politicians with hasty hands, who today are on top with the help of this idiocy and have no sense of how much the politics of disintegration which they carry on can necessarily be only a politics for an intermission—thanks to all this and to some things today which are quite impossible to utter, now the most unambiguous signs indicating that Europe wants to become a unity are being overlooked or willfully and mendaciously reinterpreted.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part 8

“I have done the deed.”
– Macbeth, Act II, scene ii