Omar Khayyam Quotes
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Khayyam, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1st ed., Bernard Quaritch, 1859, p. 8.
This statement as with others like it offended the religious authorities of the time as they claimed that they—-The Bible---knew everything important just as fundamentalist Muslims claim today about the Koran. So statements of this kind were considered heresy by some and still are.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
This famous decree issued the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It called for all prisoners held in the occupied countries of Europe to be transported to Germany. Most were Jews that had already been rounded up. This was Hitler’s euphemism for the murder of almost all of the prisoners, Jews and Christians.
This quotation may be apocryphal and not real. We have not been able to find an eyewitness or even a quotation the citation of which gave a date or suggested how the quote was ever made public given that it passed between these two men. However it is so frequently quoted that we have decided to include it. A further argument in its favor is that it fits the circumstances of the time. FDR had given Hopkins a huge budget and told Hopkins to get the American people working again. Hopkins did not believe in payments to the able bodied unless worked and his programs created an astounding array of jobs for the unemployed to do ranging from fixing benches in parks to writing poetry about poverty. He spend more money than any human being in history and started and implemented a nationwide program at a pace that has never been matched, Incredibly, no one was ever able to find any dishonesty in the administration, but it took years for the information of exactly what had going on at the local level to filter back to Washington. So the quote is plausible factually. Style-wise Hopkins was brutally honest with Roosevelt and others so well might have admitted that he did not know all that was going on in his programs. See {642829}.
Omar Khayyam was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Persia, and was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuks around the time of the First Crusade.
