Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or numbers:
“How long halt ye between two opinions?”
—Bible: Hebrew Elijah, in 1 Kings, 18:21.
Spoken to the children of Israel.
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)