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

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

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

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

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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