State Downfall Quotes
Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad. He is generally regarded to be the World’s first social scientist. The largest statue in Tunisia of not of a military leader of king, but of this social scientist. The Arab view in the 14th century was that the Ottomans were a blessing from God—saviors rather than the occupiers as they were viewed by Arabs in the 20th Century.
Fox, the Quaker founder, dispatched Aldam to petition Oliver Cromwell for relief of the persecution of the Quakers. Cromwell at first maintained that he was unaware of these organized governmental persecutions so Aldam and another Quaker, Anthony Pearson, collected the writs of many Quakers who were in Jail. Aldam returned and presented these to Cromwell who, having his own political difficulties choose not to get involved as a substantial part of his political support saw Quakers as heretics. Aldam then removed his hat and rendered it into pieces uttering the quotation which might have been interpreted as a curse. Quakers had a concept of—see {611244} for another—“specific fore-seeing” which others might call prophesy. Shortly thereafter Cromwell was deposed.
He began an anti-corruption campaign, that executed many and jailed thousands. However, the Chinese Party Council has more billionaires than any other national legislature in the world. Most of these fortunes were made via corruption; these high level figures and those of the army by 2014 were not prosecuted. However, it was a start.
