At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.
Considering that a majority of the world's population claims belief in the tenets of Middle Eastern blood sacrifice cults...
Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
Henry A. Kissinger
Christianity is a Middle Eastern blood sacrifice cult too. As is the mother faith.
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.
Gustave Le Bon
We getting the Thumbnail Library here?
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Dumb stuff too though.