“When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 202
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“When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 202
“Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 389
“Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. xix
“Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 213
“To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 399
“What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 455
“Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 554
“For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.”
Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 327
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Источник: A Distant Mirror (1978)