Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

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• Ameen Rihani:

  Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

• Ameen Rihani:

  Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European desce

• Ameen Rihani:

  All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, de

• Ameen Rihani:

  Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly mate

• Ameen Rihani:

  There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of whic

• Ameen Rihani:

  Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not alway

• Ameen Rihani:

  To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to en

• Ameen Rihani:

  An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nat

• Ameen Rihani:

  We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the Wor

• Ameen Rihani:

  When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare a