"In practicing social civility, you keep silent about things you know clearly but which you should not say and do not say." — Richard Sennett Some of the consequences of the above: - self- censorship (especially in "democracies") - you shouldn't say things which make people uncomfortable - you might affect the business you are tied to - fear, repression of free expression - persistence of "do-not-judge-me" armour
“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