I’ve learned pogroms do not require much in the way of organization. Merely ample hate. - Andrew Fox

“The wall will always be there to protect us,” they said. I later came to understand that it is merely a tangible, universally visible symbol of the far more important invisible walls separating the seventy-thousand subcommunities—or is it eighty-thousand now? One day, I firmly believe, there will be as many subcommunities as there are residents in the City.

That's…that's a nightmarish scenario. Do you really think people would just… attack one another, as soon as the fences were gone? That they'd throw aside civil society so easily?"
"What 'civil society,' Leah? Your eight million inhabitants have never learned how to exist and thrive in a civil society—all they've known are clans, sheltered clans.

And so he nattered on, like an old woman fretting over the fraying of her prayer rug, not realizing the ceaseless nervous fidgeting of her fingers was the cause of its fraying.