If you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate.
—Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman
“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