Mohsin Hamid Quotes

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

Mohsin Hamid

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• If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Protect
  • Prison
  • Nations