Breyten Breytenbach famous quotes

03-22-2025

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Real #Order #Hunts
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Dancing #Enemy #Steps
Even ivory towers need central heating.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Ivory Tower #Ivory #Towers
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Reality #Spotlight #Opaque
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Writing #Thinking #Curious
I came, I saw, I was confused.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Confused #Saws #Disorder
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Powerful #War #Mind
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Rights #Government #Yardsticks
Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Art
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Dream #Order #Creative
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#America #Goal #Ungrateful

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