Habits Quote by Paul Bowles

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the…

— Ben Katchor

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger…

— Winston Churchill

“The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white…

— Karen Blixen

“When I first came here it was a pure country. There was music and dancing and magic every day in the streets. "Now it's…

— Paul Bowles

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a…

— Karen Armstrong

“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights of popular…

— Jean Lorrain

“Most communities attempting to survive under irresistible pressure from a dominant culture develop a myth that allows them to believe they are somehow a…

— Orson Scott Card

“The Meccan Hajj, where tens of thousands of picked zealots gather every year from every quarter of the Moslem world, is really an annual…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender…

— Idries Shah

“Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would…

— Truman Capote

“If you’d like to grasp the full beauty of God’s creation, see color. Instead of pretending like we are color-blind, let’s celebrate God’s creation.…

— Russell D. Moore