35 Quotes by Ibn Warraq

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it’s just nonsense.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.

I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.

As Luxenberg’s work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.