This foolish world cannot possibly be any more foolish. After millions of years of our descent from the Stone Age, the exact same golden rule remains true: the one with the biggest stone, the thickest stick, and the meanest bully is the one who is right! —Ghassan Kanafani, 1972. Translated from Arabic
“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