But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. —William Butler Yeats, Irish poet
“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