For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so cl…

- Robert Briffault

The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of Eu…

- Robert Briffault

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as…

- Robert Briffault

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creati…

- Robert Briffault

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

- Robert Briffault

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

- Robert Briffault

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and s…

- Robert Briffault

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most d…

- Robert Briffault

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

- Robert Briffault