"...in one form or another men must assume responsibility for all crimes committed by men, and that eventually all nations will be forced to answer for the evil committed by all others.

Tribalism and racism are the very realistic, if very destructive, ways of escaping this predicament of common responsibility. Their metaphysical rootlessness, which matched so well the territorial uprootedness of the nationalities if first seized, was equally well suited to the needs of the shifting masses of modern cities and was therefore grasped at once by totalitarianism..." - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Page 236