"The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians."

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Source : Bernard Lewis (1993). “Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East”, p.148, Open Court Publishing

Bernard Lewis

#Christian Quotes #Europe Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.”
“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
“To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.”
“One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.”

Source : Attributed to Jacques Chirac speaking to Silvio Berlusconi over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 20 o'clock news, TF1, March 11, 2007.
“Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.”
“God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?”
“My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.”

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