You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me! What has your politics fed on since you've been ruling the world? On butchery and murder! —Charles de Coster, The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
“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