One should not think that Europe and the United States have brought misery to other countries and prosperity to their own people. Today, in the US and other Western countries, science, wealth, military power and many other things exist but happiness is missing. The family has been destroyed. The statistics on crime, murder and various types of corruption are shocking. A sense of security does not exist. A feeling of peace does not exist. Thus, most movements of nihilism originate in Europe.
Imam Khamenei, [May 9, 2005]
