The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice. - Arnold J. Toynbee

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal.

We have observed that the germ of creative power in Christianity was not of Hellenic but of alien origin (in fact of Syriac origin, as we can now identify it). By contrast we can observe that the creative germ of Islam was not alien from, but native to, the Syriac Society.