The Alexandria Link Quotes

“More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“It’s not so much the wars as the treaties that follow that truly alter the course of history. The Marshall Plan changed the world more expressly than World War II itself. Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“What are you saying?” “This isn’t a secure line, so I doubt you want me to say what I really think. Let me say it with a story. One my daddy used to tell. There was a bird flying south for the winter, but he got caught in an ice storm and fell to the ground. He froze, but a cow came along and crapped on him. The warm poop unthawed him and he liked it so much he started to sing. A cat came along to see what the commotion was about, asked if he could help, saw it was a meal, and ate the bird. Here are the morals of the story. Everybody who shits on you ain’t your enemy. Everybody who comes along to help ain’t your friend.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“That’s the flaw of religion. No respect for truth. None of them cares what’s real, only what they can pass off as reality.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“What could possibly be so enticing to Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Yemen to the exclusion of Saudi Arabia?” “The elimination of Israel.” Silence gripped the room. “Granted, that’s a common goal for all those nations, but it’s also impossible. That state is here to stay.” “That’s what was said about the Soviet Union. Yet when its purpose was seriously challenged, then exposed for the fraud that it was, look what occurred. Dissolution in a matter of days.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Abraham is the father of all three of the world’s main religions,” Haddad said. “Islam, Judaism, and Christianity trace their roots to him, though the story of his life differs in each. The entire conflict in the Middle East, which has endured for thousands of years, is simply a debate over which account is correct, which religion has the divine right to the land. The Arabs through Ishmael. The Jews from Isaac. The Christians by Christ.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Exposure was always a risk when betrayal became a way of life. Luckily,”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to the present, and the other during the fourth century BCE, when Greece ruled the world.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“The vast majority of the books remained missing, drifting from collectors, to vendors, to the trash, which seemed the fate of much of humanity’s recorded knowledge.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“That library was the greatest concentration of knowledge on the planet. It stood for six hundred years until the middle of the seventh century, when the Muslims finally took control of Alexandria and purged everything contrary to Islam. Half a million scrolls, codices, maps—you name it, the library stored a copy. And to this day? No one has ever found a single shred of it.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“He suggested Kronborg Slot. Eleven AM.” He knew the place. Not far away, perched on a spit of bare land overlooking the Øresund. Shakespeare had immortalized the monstrous fortress when he set Hamlet there. Now it was the most popular tourist attraction in Scandinavia.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Knowledge is the first thing eradicated once power is attained. History has proven that over and over.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Always know your battlefield. He”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“When things go bad, anything can hurt you, including doing nothing.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“no different from the myriad of other politicos he’d bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Respect is earned.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon,”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Knowledge should never be feared.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“He’d read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to the present, and the other during the fourth century BCE, when Greece ruled the world. He”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Old friendships could atrophy. People changed. What was once appreciated between two people became uncomfortable.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Lateness is rude.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“That’s the problem with bureaucrats. They think everything is negotiable.” The”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“Right, wrong, doesn’t matter. Just do something.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link