Through its very existence, the apocalypse locked in the death silos of the richest countries reduces our hopes of a better life for mankind. Let it be known with what barbaric inventions, and for what petty purposes, they wiped out the life of the universe. –Gabriel GarcĆa MĆ”rquez, 1987
“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