5 Quotes & Sayings By Patricia Crone

Patricia Crone is a writer and editor who has worked in the publishing industry for over twenty-five years. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including "Fortune," "National Review," and "The New York Times." She was a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" and is the author of the memoir "A Woman's Place: A Memoir of Friendship and Fulfillment."

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one...
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One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile Patricia Crone
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We are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination. Patricia Crone
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It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times. Patricia Crone
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Ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion Patricia Crone