" The woman didn't take the ball, it was the invisible hand of the free market that allocated the ball where it can be put to use most efficiently." — H. B. (the owner of this joke wants to remain anonymous)
“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