Tao Te Ching

“socialists believed that class solidarity, the fraternity of the exploited, and the prospect of a just and rational society would provide this social cement. But for the majority, the vacuum was filled by the old traditional bonds—language, the soil, historical memories—symbols that proved far more powerful than either socialists or enlightened liberals wished to believe.”

— Isaiah Berlin 1909 – 1997 CE via Shan Dao
"the world's greatest talker"
from The Proper Study of Mankind