"Government is an institution which prevents injustice other……" — Ibn Khaldun
"Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself."
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Ibn Khaldun
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18 Quotes by Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun has 18 quotes on this site.
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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and…
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Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are…
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Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But…
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Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
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All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
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The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts.…
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned…
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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others;…
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable…
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The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.
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Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
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Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
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