
Discours
La loi de la jungle : L'agressivité chez les plantes, les animaux, les humains
Discours
Citations faussement attribuées
Conférence prononcée à la Sorbonne en 1883.
Islam
Any mistakes I've made are war wounds I wear proudly because they've shaped me more than anything else. I can only hope that if I'm patient and diligent enough, if I continue to grow as an artist and a human being, people will come to realize that I'm not some callous, power-hungry, sex-crazed control freak who sings occasionally. They'll see me for what I am. But just in case they never do, the people important to me, my friends and family, they know. They've always known, and that's enough for me.
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Années 1990
Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West. The surprise, ladies and gentlemen, is the extent to which Islam has been a part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and the extent to which it has contributed so much towards the civilisation which we all too often think of, wrongly, as entirely Western. Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart.
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