“ [A] capitalist social system is not only property relations ; it is also a set of unspoken values common to the society. These values are stronger than any army and they are the main force maintaining capitalism today.”
“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