“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
Barbarism re-appears, but this time it is created inside civilisation itself and is an integral part of it. This is the leprous barbarism, barbarism as the leper of civilisation.
—Karl Marx, 1847, Kleine ökonomische Schriften (Berlin: Dietz Verlag) 1955, p. 245.
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