Raphael Patai famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  • I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

  • When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

  • I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

  • It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

  • Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

  • The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

  • I listen to a lot of medieval music.

  • The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  • It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.