Amos Elon Quotes

In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.

Amos Elon

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• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • War
  • Film
  • Knew

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Together
  • Nature

• If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Power
  • War
  • Small

• Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Start
  • Him

• Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • World
  • War
  • Solution

• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Faith

• My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Black
  • Religious

• It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • War
  • Victory

• What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Religious

• In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

  

  Donald Trump
  • War

• In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Truth
  • War

• To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  

  Dominique de Villepin
  • Friends
  • American
  • War

• People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

  

  Phil Klay
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• I am a woman and, second, I have been to war. I am a combat veteran. This is not a war on women, and anytime Democrats use the word 'war,' they need to do it to honor our servicemen and women.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Women
  • War
  • Honor

• You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Prepare
  • Prevent

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Black
  • Batman

• In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.

  

  Amos Elon
  • War
  • Religious
  • Worship