... Drowning ..?! So what if we continue to drown .. It's a chance to live among the fish ... traquil .. Without problems ... Without bickering ... Without the pettiness of humans! — Wald Taher, A Bit of Air , 2008 and 2012. Translated from Egyptian Arabic by Anita Husen
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51