Selecting quotes consistent with Catch - 22 was not easy. These reflect some of the points raised:

“The Gentleman was an English invention, and it is not too much to say that the invention of the gentleman was the reason England did not have its own version of the French Revolution.”
Jeffrey Hart

“Sept. 11 . . . attacks drove home [or should have] the reality that pluralism, religious tolerance, equality, freedom and prosperity are not the default condition of mankind but a fragile gift of history in need of our reverence and protection.”
Kay Hymowitz

“When you’re dealing with civilized people, even if you attack them, you can engage in rational discourse.”
Walid Jumblatt (Sunni Muslim and Druze Leader in Lebanon)

“The problem with bigotry is that you don’t stop and think. The problem with absolute acceptance is that you stop thinking.” (This is one of the major problems with "intellectuals" . . . accepting w/o thinking. Worse, they may actually think that the West isn't worth saving.)
Lee Jones