Being on the left means thinking of the world first, then of one’s country, then of ones’ relatives, then of oneself; being on the right means the opposite. Être de gauche c’est d’abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi ; être de droite c’est l’inverse. —Gilles Deleuze
“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