#world

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. ↗

— James Buchan

#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. ↗

— James Buchan

#dominion #eternal #force #forms #god-given

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#best #broken #care #doctors #health

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#catholics #consequence #during #extraordinary #ii

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#down #saw #terrorists #these #those

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#public #sin #world

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#grandmother #old #only #say #two

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. ↗