The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.Samuel P. Huntington The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderLanguage is the main instrumentof man’s refusal to accept the worldas it is.
Geoge Steiner After Babel
