Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

Translation of the Liberals with their Quotes on Partiotism

Once you’ve started quoting Exupery, let’s give him another quote:

Of course, people can be inspired by worshipping them in some form. They will sing warlike songs and break bread in the circle of comrades. They will find what they are looking for, feel unity and community. But this bread will bring them death. You can dig up forgotten wooden idols, you can resurrect old old myths that, whether bad or good, have already shown themselves, you can inspire people again to believe in pan-Germanism or the Roman Empire. You can trick the Germans in a hurry, because they are Germans and compatriots of Beethoven. So you can shake the head and the last pipe cleaner. And that’s much easier than waking Beethoven up in a pipeline.

In general, Exupery is better to read the whole, rather than pull the paragraphs out of context.