Human Resources Quotes
See Napoleon Bonaparte for a similar view.
This was a terribly accurate prediction of what occurred in South America. However even the smaller states then began to have self destructive cycles of destructive revoutions.
This book—a compendium of 17 lectures—was the basis of the Iranian Revolution and the post revolution government. Note that his views of the vestige of colonialism is classic. He saw the Shah’s regime as a puppet one of the Western powers.
While Peres and many others think that the Arab nations can become developed countries, there are major barriers in the way. One is oil. No country that has had a great deal of oil has ever developed. Then there is education. Israel’s technological success requires a very high level of education in secular subjects which no Arab nation provides. The Western cultural values of inquiry, freedom of thought, individuality are were in large part developed from the traditional Jewish values. The Muslims had these at the early 2nd millineum. But political and religious forces since then, have created contemporary Arab cultures whose vaues are in many ways antithetical to modern technological development.
