In the eyes of the contemporary bourgeoisie everything is admirable which dispels the idea of violence. Our middle class desire to die in peace – after them the deluge.
—Geroges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, 1908.
“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
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