Quotes
Authors
Amin Maalouf

"Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacredâ€¦", "The English have devastatedâ€¦", "The Jews have confiscatedâ€¦", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuseâ€¦". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." â€“ Amin Maalouf "On Identity"

-- Amin Maalouf

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“Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.”
“Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.”
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”
“As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.”
“Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.”
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
“Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.”
“No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.”

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