Shadia Drury quotes
-
“Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.”
-- Shadia Drury -
“I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.”
-- Shadia DrurySource : "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.
-
“As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.”
-- Shadia Drury
-
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.
-
“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”
Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
-
“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.”
You may also like:
-
Alexandre Kojeve
Philosopher -
Allan Bloom
Philosopher -
Aristotle
Philosopher -
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher -
Carl Schmitt
Philosopher -
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Former United States Senator -
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher -
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher -
Irving Kristol
Columnist -
Jeane Kirkpatrick
United States Ambassador to the United Nations -
Leo Strauss
Philosopher -
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher -
Midge Decter
Journalist -
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian -
Paul Wolfowitz
Ambassador -
Richard Perle
Political scientist -
Thomas Aquinas
Priest -
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher -
William Kristol
Commentator