Bernard Lewis Quotes

I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly opposed to autocratic dictatorial government. The idea which we so often hear expressed in the Western world, that's how they are, that's how they will always be and they can't do anything else.

Bernard Lewis

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• We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

  

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• My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

  

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• Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

  

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• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

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• The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.

  

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

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• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

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• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

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• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

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• The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

  

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• A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

  

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• I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly opposed to autocratic dictatorial government. The idea which we so often hear expressed in the Western world, that's how they are, that's how they will always be and they can't do anything else.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Government
  • Idea
  • Islam