Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.

Chapter 1 A Parade in Ehrenrang (p. 18) - Hainish Cycle - The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)