Simon Sebag-Montefiore Quotes
- The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.
- Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
- The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who…
- The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless,…