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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes… — Christopher Hitchens
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me… — George Bernard Shaw
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite… — Bertrand Russell
When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass… — Thomas Carlyle
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of… — Thomas Carlyle
No amount of hatred can prevent an enemy from being right sometimes. — Wes Fesler
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the… — Federico Garcia Lorca
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is… — John F. Kennedy
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate… — Dalai Lama
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,… — Albert Camus
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain… — Samuel Johnson
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… — George Bernard Shaw
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they… — Samuel Johnson
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall… — Herbert Hoover
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the… — Pablo Neruda
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. — Robert Foster Bennett
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,… — Andrew Carnegie
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds… — Eli Broad
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to… — Julia Gillard
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family,… — Takafumi Horie

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