El mejor modo de castigar a los humanos, es dándoles lo que tanto reclaman. - René Girard

Those who protest against “Western ethnocentrism” imagine themselves to owe nothing to the West, since after all they rage furiously against it. But in fact theirs is the most Western perspective of all, more Western than that of their adversaries.

Not only is the revolt against ethnocentrism an invention of the West, it cannot be found outside the West.

Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.

Violence is the divine force that everyone tries to use for his own purposes and that ends by using everyone for its own — the Dionysus of The Bacchae