And we have our small dreams Such as to wake up healed of disappointment .. We did not dream of impossible things! We are alive, we survive, and we dream on. —Mahmoud Darwish
“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