A Quote by Edward Gibbon

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

Edward Gibbon

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Arabs Arms Love Merchandise Noblest Profession United

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Edward Gibbon
English - Historian
April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and Muslims the way I see them... but Arabs are losing the public relations battle in the United States.

Neil Bush

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Elie Wiesel

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

V. R. Krishna Iyer

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, “lengthened out all the day long.

Neil L. Andersen

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

Mahmoud Darwish

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

David K. Shipler

Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.

Che Guevara

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

Napoleon Hill

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Haile Selassie

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home

Mahatma Gandhi

To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

Serena Williams

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...