Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
I'm going to be obscenely pretentious, and quote some poetry to make my point. It's Kipling, funnily enough.

Take up the White Man's Burden
The Savage wars of peace-
Fill the mouth full of famine
And bid the sickness cease.
I always thought his warning about colonialism (from the same poem) was on the mark:

By all ye cry and whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.