„First, we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States which will be the last bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit into our hands.“

— Vladimir Lenin
„We must build a kind of United States of Europe.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.“
— James Baldwin
„I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald