Re: The dogs bark (was Re: spreading democracy (was: Bush budget< etc>))

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 18:03:34 MST

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    > (Russell Blackford <rblackford@hotmail.com>):
    >
    > Does anyone know where that last phrase ("The dog barks, but
    > caravan moves on") originally came from? I first encountered it
    > in Nancy Kress's writing, where it is referred to, perhaps
    > ironically, as on old Eastern proverb, or something. Was it
    > someone like Ayn Rand? Or is it a genuine proverb? Or did Kress
    > make it up?

    It's a geniune proverb, and old enough that its origin is unclear,
    though most sources call it Persian. It was not, however, from
    Farsi, but from Arabic: "al-kilabu tanbakhu wal-kafila tasir". 

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