Bernard: But sometmes, Willy, it's better for a man just to walk away. Willy: Walk away? Bernard: That's right. Willy: But if you can't walk away? Bernard: I guess that's when it's tough. — Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
“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