“I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament,”

Christopher Lasch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lasch
http://www.tnr.com/article/jeremiah-american-style-0?page=0,0

The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has made the world evil and ugly.

Nietzsche

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington#Quotations