"What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime."

--

Source : Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.142, Pan Macmillan

Philip Gourevitch

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”
“Too much emotion is like none at all.”
“Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding”
“You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.104, Gibbs Smith
“My backside and my privates. Iâ€™m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.”

Source : Robert Newton Peck (2010). “A Day No Pigs Would Die”, p.15, Laurel Leaf
“When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?”
“The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.”

You may also like:

Errol Morris
Film director
George Packer
Journalist
George Plimpton
Journalist
Lorin Stein
Editor
Lynndie England
Soldier
Paul Rusesabagina
RomÃ©o Dallaire
Canadian Senator
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Journalist
William Faulkner
Writer