Our history, right up to the present, is filled with mass murder, but whenever we speak of killing, it is with eyes lowered and tones of pious horror

"Well, of course we are westerners," he says in another voice,sounding suddenly professional. "Westerners, or at least immigrants who settled here. For us killing is a question of law and morality, or medicine, at any rate a sanctioned or prohibited act that is very precisely delineated within our system of thought. We kill, but in a more complicated way; we kill according to the dictates and authorization of the law... Our history, right up to the present, is filled with mass murder, but whenever we speak of killing, it is with eyes lowered and  tones of pious horror; we cannot do otherwise, it is our prescribed role.

S. Marai, Embers (1942), tr. C.B. Janeworthy (2001), 198

The Hungarians are more honourable and cleaner infidels

The Hungarians are Protestants while the Austrians are Catholics. Therefore these two infidel groups are opposites to one another, despite their both being Christians. ... In short, though both are unbelievers without faith, the Hungarians are more honourable and cleaner infidels. They do not wash their faces every morning with their urine as the Austrians do, but wash their faces every morning with water as the Ottomans do.

Evliya Celebi, Book of Travels 7.3, ed. & tr. R.Dankoff & S. Kim, An Ottoman Traveller (2010), 230-31