Will Durant Quote

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage page 459. - The Story of Civilization (1935–1975) - I - Our Oriental Heritage (1935)