“The social institutions and attitudes inherited from earlier times and maintained with increasing rigidity made it difficult to adapt to changing circumstances or to create new political and economic institutions which would facilitate such an adaption. An attitude towards unbelievers that varied from condescension in good times, to hostility and mistrust in bad times, made it difficult to learn from them, or even to understand them, at a time when it was the West, and not as previously the Islamic world, that had something to teach.”
― The Arabs in History
― The Arabs in History
“A devoted cleric, he [Lenin] argued, is far more influential than an egotistical and immoral one. [p. 51]”
― Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
― Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
“But ask not what your country can do for you. Come up with a plan yourself. Social media will judge it and forward it to the mainstream media and the candidates themselves. Ask yourself what you want and create a deal structure that gets it for you.
Who is stopping you? (from his blog: 'Deportation and Deals" 8/31/16)”
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Who is stopping you? (from his blog: 'Deportation and Deals" 8/31/16)”
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