Eqbal Ahmad quotes

“We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.”
-- Eqbal Ahmad

Source : Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2017). “Confronting Empire”, p.87, Haymarket Books

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“The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.”
-- Eqbal Ahmad

Source : Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2000). “Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian”, p.51, South End Press

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“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.”

“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

“I listen to a lot of medieval music.”

“It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.”

Source : Raphael Patai (2015). “The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology”, p.29, Wayne State University Press

“In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'”

“There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180.”

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