Patricia Crone said this quote

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

~ Patricia Crone

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

~ Patricia Crone

It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

~ Patricia Crone