Egypt Quotes
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Lo, thou trusted in thestaff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
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More Egypt Quotes
Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
moses— Exodus 3:11 (KJV)
Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
— 3:11 (KJV)
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there wasnot a house wherethere wasnot one dead.
Bible (Old Testament)— Exodus12:30.
Sir Anthony Eden has been pretending that he is now invading Egypt in order to strengthen the United Nations. Every burglar of course could say the same thing, he could argue that he was entering the house in order to train the police. So, if Sir Anthony Eden is sincere in what he is saying, and he may be, he may be, then if he is sincere in what he is saying then he is too stupid to be a prime minister.
Aneurin Bevan— Speech on November 4th at "Law not War" rally in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Suez crisis of 1956.
In reference to the area of the Jewish state: From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.
theodor herzl— As quoted in Complete Diaries by Theodor Herzl, Volume II, page 711.
It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt , Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.
george sarton— Preface (A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952))
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
Northrop Frye— Chapter Five, p. 106
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.
strabo— 17.1.12-13
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
benjamin graham— Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
camille paglia— p. 239 (Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf)
Ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt and Rome have all disappeared from this world, but the elements of our civilization still continue. Although world-events have been inimical to us for centuries, there is something in our civilization which has withstood these onslaughts.
— Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938), Vedic Revelations
I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 45:18.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it inhaste: it isthe L's passover.For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all thegods of Egypt Iwill executejudgment: Iam the L.
Bible (Old Testament)— Exodus12:11-12.
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
— 1949 'Can a Scientific Community Be Stable?', Lloyd Roberts lecture to the Royal Society of Medicine, 29 Nov.
It will be fun to be the first Jewish Queen of Egypt.
elizabeth taylor— c.1962 On taking the title role in Cleopatra. Attributed.
I do not believe that in Egypt we can prohibit it [polygamy] by law....Polygamy cannot be prevented by force, but through education.
Suzanne Mubarak— Polygamy and Female Circumcision Can Only Be Abolished Through Education, Not by Force. A Female Egyptian President - Not in the Near Future March 2007
Why Egypt should be of such importance either to the French or to Us I never could discover and I have always thought the Expedition there the foolishest part, perhaps the only foolish part of Bonaparte's Conduct, unless perhaps he had some views in it connected with the internal Politicks of France of which we are not informed, or (which I have always suspected) that he had a desire to be out of the way of either accepting or refusing the command of an army destined to invade England.
charles james fox— Letter to H. E. Fox (15 May 1801), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 168.
Israel should really reflect on what's going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Hosni Mubarak of the peace process.
thomas l. friedman— Meet The Press, January 30, 2011.[2]
Yet through Alexander (the Great) Bactria and the Caucasus learned to revere the gods of the Greeks ... Alexander established more than seventy cities among savage tribes, and sowed all Asia with Greek magistracies ... Egypt would not have its Alexandria, nor Mesopotamia its Seleucia, nor Sogdiana its Prophthasia, nor India its Bucephalia, nor the Caucasus a Greek city, for by the founding of cities in these places savagery was extinguished and the worse element, gaining familiarity with the better, changed under its influence.
Plutarch— On the Fortune of Alexander, I, 328D, 329A Loeb, F.C. Babbitt.
Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate
vladimir putin— On the situation in Egypt after the ousting of Egyptian president Morsi, 7 July 2013 [31] The Economic Times.co.uk
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
bertrand russell— "Can a Scientific Community Be Stable?," Lecture, Royal Society of Medicine, London (29 November 1949).
I hope that in Egypt there can be a transition toward a more democratic system without a break from President Mubarak , who in the West, above all in the United States, is considered the wisest of men and a precise reference point.
— Silvio Berlusconi, as quoted in Reuters news report posted as "Berlusconi: Hosni Mubarak Is 'The Wisest Of Men'", at The Huffington Post (4 February 2011), and in "Berlusconi: Mubarak is a wise man" at Al Jazeera (4 February 2011)
The sooner Mubarak leaves, the better it is for everybody and the quicker we can restore normality and stability in Egypt and establish the cornerstone of democracy in the Middle East.
— Mohamed ElBaradei, as quoted in "Mohamed ElBaradei urges world leaders to abandon Hosni Mubarak" in The Guardian (2 February 2011)
Persian rule in Egypt was not to survive long, but its overthrow was not the work of Egyptians. In 336 BC a Greek army, led by Alexander III (Alexander the Great) king of Macedonia invaded the Persian empire[...] It would be easy to see in this, the formal establishment of Greek rule in Egypt, the logical culmination of three centuries of Greek influence and patronage. But, except in so far as the earlier involvement of Greeks in Egyptian affairs prepared the Egyptians psychologically to accept Greek rule.
— "The Cambridge History of Africa" edited by J. D. Fage, pp. 105-106
The city-states of ancient Greece established colonies in almost every part of of their known world. Later Alexander of Macedonia through his conquests spread hellenic culture both east to Asia and south to Egypt. One of the lesser-known legacies of Alexander's excursions is the Greeks who stayed in northern India, ruling there for twenty generations.
— Benjamin J. Broome, Professor of Communication, "Exploring the Greek Mosaic: A Guide to Intercultural Communication in Greece", p.27
When we say that God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.
— John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)
— Often misquoted as "God is an essence that we know nothing of" and attached to part of another Adams letter to Jefferson (22 January 1825 — over five years later) on a different theological point, to form "God is an essence we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is gotten rid of there will never be any liberal science in the world." Misquotation cited in Jonathan Miller. (2004). A Brief History of Disbelief [TV-Series]. BBC Four. and in The Quotable John Adams (Globe Pequot, 2008), p. 185ff.
