The Great Betrayal Quotes

“It is always pleasant to be able to combine the necessary evils of business with the blessings of God.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople

“western civilisation and culture are more likely to collapse from internal dissension than from external pressure. The enemy is within. It is a hydra with many heads, but three predominate—Stupidity, Envy and Greed. The destruction of Constantinople and its Empire is an appalling example of what can result from political opportunism and narrow patriotism. It is not necessary to look very far in the western world at this moment to see similar dangers arising from similar misguided policies.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople

“This is a calamitous story, but it contains a moral for our own time: western civilisation and culture are more likely to collapse from internal dissension than from external pressure. The enemy is within. It is a hydra with many heads, but three predominate—Stupidity, Envy and Greed. The destruction of Constantinople and its Empire is an appalling example of what can result from political opportunism and narrow patriotism. It is not necessary to look very far in the western world at this moment to see similar dangers arising from similar misguided policies.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople

“In the history of religions, more intolerance has been displayed by Christians than by the followers of any other Faith.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople

“…men can only be highly civilised while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople