Congres national égyptien, Oeuvres du congrès national égyptien tenu à Bruxelles les 22… (1911)
“ Can a famine-stricken village keep up a mosque or purchase books on religion ? When a people are reduced to that last state of destitution which can exist as a permanent condition only under the British flag, there is for them neither religion nor art, nor science, nor morals, for they are simply like beasts, and can not concern themselves with the higher interests of human life. Thus poverty dissolves all the bonds of society and converts a nation into a herd of lean cattle, or a pack of hungry wolves. It sounds the death knell of religion and moral life. ”
