Controversial Sayings

Heraclius' city, Constantinople, will be conquered.

Women are by nature 'deficient and misbegotten.'

What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent.

The greater part of the world is ignorant of the true wisdom, and is ruled by error and deception.

Be of one mind and one purpose, that you may conquer your enemies and lead your lives in peace.

I have conquered Jerusalem. Now I shall conquer the world.

By God's teeth, I will sell London if I can find a buyer rich enough!

It is not proper to teach the Oral Law except to a single individual, and then only if he is a wise and understanding man.

Earth’s Secret to a starting Point of Glass Was solved for me; it was the Glass that was the Cause.

Hindu and Muslim are pots of the same clay; but the potter has given them different names.

I do not know what I have done to deserve such persecution.

The world is divided into men who have brains and no religion, and men who have religion and no brains.

What is easiest and most useful in arithmetic, such as men frequently require in cases of inheritance, legacies, partition, lawsuits, and trade.

The earth is a tavern, and we are all drunkards. Some are drunk with wine, others with ambition, still others with love.

What sholde I speke of the synne of glotonye, that is so greet a synne?

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

They eat their meat raw, and they drink blood, and they have no laws, and they worship idols.

The women of this country are very beautiful, and they are treated with more respect than the men. They are not veiled, and they have no shame.

I have persecuted the natives of England beyond all reason.

The truth does not contradict the truth; rather, it is consistent with it and bears witness to it.