"The British bourgeoisie do not spare any money as far as this institution is concerned, and that is as it should be." — Lenin, impressed by the British state's commitment to the British Museum library. London's role in the Russian revolution
“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