كان الإسكندر هو الذي ساعد على إدخال عادة حلق اللحية في أوروبا، وحجته في ذلك أن اللحية تمكن العدو من القبض على صاحبها. ولعل أكبر آثاره في التاريخ هو ه… - Will Durant

It might have been supposed that the building of 30,000 miles of railways would have brought a measure of prosperity to India. But these railways were built not for India but for England; not for the benefit of the Hindu, but for the purposes of the British army and British trade... The railroads are entirely in European hands, and the Government refuse to appoint even one Hindu to the Railway Board. The railways lose money year after year, and are helped by the Government out of the revenues of the people. All the loses are borne by the people, all the gains are gathered by the trader.

The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth. Si jeunesse savait, et vieillesse pouvait! — “If youth knew how, and old age could!

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.