Greg Young

“The truth is that we are the only race on earth that can produce men capable of getting inside the skin of remote peoples. Perhaps the Scots are better than the English, but we are all a thousand per cent better than anyone else’. An unrealistic conceit.”
― Walter Reid, Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East

“[W]hen people talk of our muddling through it throws me into a passion. Muddle through! why yes, so we do – wading through blood and tears that need never have been shed.2”
― Walter Reid, Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East

“And he showed little compassion to the slaves themselves, arguing that sugar would be too expensive were it not for slave labour, and that ‘One cannot get into one’s mind that God, who is a very wise being, should have put a soul, above all a good soul, in a body that was entirely black.”
― Carrie Gibson, Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

“Every Saturday and every holiday morning,” wrote Adolph, “saw us all at the synagogue. I suppose Jesus Christ did the same, because the New Testament tells us that he drove the money-changers from the Temple and that at times he preached in the synagogue.” He added, somewhat slyly: “As a pious Jew, he must have attended the synagogue, although I suppose that toward the end of his life the authorities would not let him preach. Perhaps if he were to appear today and preach as radically as he did then, he would not be allowed in the more conservative Christian churches.”
― Stephen Birmingham, Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York