"In the United States: Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke 'Afro-American racists'. Russia should introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements—extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."
— Russian book "Foundations of Geopolitics" (1997)

"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man.
Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."
— Captain Gustave M. Gilbert, U.S. Army psychologist assigned to observe and interview high-ranking Nazi prisoners in preparation for the Nuremberg trials