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Jay Rubenstein Quotes

born 1967 United States

Jay Rubenstein (born 1967) is an American historian of the Middle Ages.

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If the crusades have any lesson to teach us it is this... Mixing myths (in the proper sense) with politics leads only to calamity. And like all of history's truly important lessons, knowing its answer won't do us any good until everyone figures it out.

This is one moral I am comfortable drawing: When the leaders who direct wars and the men who wield the weapons of war become convinced that their actions align perfectly with the divine, we are inviting unthinkable atrocities. It’s a big enough lesson that putting it into words verges on the maudlin. But, unfortunately, it’s a lesson that is relevant for our world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jay Rubenstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.