"The Renaissance of Europe did not take place……" — Robert Briffault
"The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain."
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Robert Briffault
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10 Quotes by Robert Briffault
Robert Briffault has 10 quotes on this site.
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No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
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The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even…
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Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces…
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The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit…
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Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable…
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For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
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The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.
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The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in…
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In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn…
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More Arabs Quotes
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
— Bashar al-Assad
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As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not…
— Roseanne Barr
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
— Theodore Bikel
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they…
— James Buchan
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I…
— George S. Patton
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
— June Jordan
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I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it…
— George W. Bush
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
— T.E. Lawrence
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