# The Devil's Pleasure Palace ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/418hZHPo-kL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Michael Walsh]] - Full Title: The Devil's Pleasure Palace - Category: #books ## Highlights - Conflict is the essence of history, but also of drama. Without conflict, there can be no progress, without progress there can be no history, without history there can be no culture, without culture there can be no civilization. And—since nothing in this world, or any other possible world in the universe, is or can be static—without the cultural artifact of drama, there can be no civilization. ([Location 375](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PSSEIXE&location=375)) - Collectively, the West is confounded by Islam because it fails to credit the plain words of Islamist animus against the West; how much interpretation, after all, does the slogan “Death to America” actually require? ([Location 734](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PSSEIXE&location=734))