
“humiliating backward condition of our country.”
[TUNISIA: Breaking the Fast, TIME, Monday, Feb. 22, 1960, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939596,00.html, September 6, 2011]
Arab and Islamic Countries Should Obtain Nuclear Technology "For Military Purposes" http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1140.htm (June 2006)
“humiliating backward condition of our country.”
[TUNISIA: Breaking the Fast, TIME, Monday, Feb. 22, 1960, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939596,00.html, September 6, 2011]
Letter to The Guardian (1 December 1961), quoted in Bryan Magee, The New Radicalism (1963), p. 102, n.
“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!
Make me a child again, just for to-night!”
Rock me to sleep, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), p. 322
Context: In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea as they hit upon themselves or hear set forth by others, no matter how simple and stupid these may be, gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage — if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries.
Query 3
Opticks (1704)
Context: Are not the Rays of Light in passing by the edges and sides of Bodies, bent several times backwards and forwards, with a motion like that of an Eel? And do not the three Fringes of colour'd Light... arise from three such bendings?
Source: The Islamic Declaration (1970), p. 5.
“Everything is backwards now, like out there is the the real world and this is the dream.”
Jake Sully
Avatar (2009)
“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 32 (p. 295)
Prologue
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998)