Top 7 Bernard Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.”

— Bernard Lewis

2. “America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.”

— Bernard Lewis

3. “The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.”

— Bernard Lewis

4. “The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.”

— Bernard Lewis

5. “If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.”

— Bernard Lewis

6. “Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.”

— Bernard Lewis

7. “Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.”

— Bernard Lewis

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