Every border implies the violence of its maintenance.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.
International politics is a brutal and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.