“ Ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion Patricia Crone
“ It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and t… Patricia Crone
“ We are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination. Patricia Crone
