"Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building."

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Source : Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

Philip Gourevitch

#Exercise Quotes #Community Quotes #Genocide Quotes

“Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.”
“We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.”

Source : "Sahaf: U.S. troops will be burned". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.
“The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.”
“I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.”
“There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.”
“But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.”
“Writers shouldnâ€™t underestimate the difficulty of what theyâ€™re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. Youâ€™re doing something that really matters, youâ€™re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything youâ€™ve got into it.”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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