Heinrich Heine Quotes
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.
Heine, Heinrich. Pictures of Travel. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland, John Weik, 1855, p. 347.
Kuo resigned in protest over the callous use that the administration was making of the religious right. Ironically, Bush, more so than any other American President, had pushed or crossed the wall of separation of church and state to provide Federal funds to Protestant Evangelical churches. However Kuo was of the opinion that the motivation was political and not principled or evangelical.
Based on this statement, the coup came to be called “The Gentlemen’s Coup.”
While he did not believe that clerics should engage in politics, he did believe that Islamic values and law should be embodied in the nation’s constitution and laws.
For many they are.
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered part of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
