Culture Quote by Paul Bowles

“Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned…

— Paul Bowles

“Modern works have sought to distort the identity of the Moors in a futile effort to obliterate the fact that Africans had once conquered…

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

“The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving…

— Paul Bowles

“There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan…

— Marilyn Hacker

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.”

— McKay

“Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.”

— Tahir Shah

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“he did revive the thinking of two respectable (if rejectionist) Islamic thinkers of mediaeval times, Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Taimiyah, and used their ideas…

— Tarek Osman

“With regret, he realized that despite his intensive studies there was still much about this world and its dominant Larian society that he did…

— Alan Dean Foster

“the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, political Islam in general, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particu lar, believed that Egypt's…

— Tarek Osman

“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of…

— T. E. Lawrence