What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red... wine of Shiraz into urine?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer--he cam...e as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw the Arab map. It resembled a mare shuffling on,... dragging its history like saddlebags, nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of... the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter tha...t I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup.... Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, And it is I who turn a poison into an antidote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him are hard... against the unbelievers, merciful one to another. Thou seest them bowing, prostrating, seeking bounty from God and good pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the trace of prostration.... God has promised those of them who believe and do deeds of righteousness forgiveness and a mighty wage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil la...ws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »