Not that this is of anything more than literary interest to me nowadays (I was once christian, now atheist) but it's interesting to note that men have recorded this as having been spoken by God to Abram, whom God later renamed Abraham, the supposed father of all Jews and all Arabs alike.

"We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms".

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)