“Haji Agha is not merely the name of a fictional character—it is a title that embodies a social type deeply rooted in Iran’s historical class structure… a kind of historical alliance emerges between religion, the bazaar, violence, and the state apparatus, whose goal is to suppress public awareness, preserve class hierarchy, and sustain exploitation.”
“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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