Alan

“Impelled by the notions that science is oppression and criticism is violence, the central regulation of debate and inquiry is returning to respectability—this time in a humanitarian disguise.”
― Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

“Turki al Bin ‘ali does the Islamic equivalent of smashing an electric guitar and kicking over an amplifier every time he steps up to the minbar.”
― Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers

“And, most precious of all, you will have Time—that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“I heard, when I was in Delhi, that the men of the West are studying the construction of the atom, and have guessed at the force imprisoned in it. Wait until they have learned how to explode the atom, and then see what they will do to one another.”
― Talbot Mundy, Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley