Philip Gourevitch Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Memories #Evil #Holocaust
“Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Tyrants #Evil #Social Justice
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Exercise #Community #Genocide
“The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Running #Responsibility #Home
“The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Political #Insane #Information
“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.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Ideas #People #Political
“In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue â€˜ethnicâ€™ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiorityâ€¦ Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made â€˜ethnicityâ€™ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Ethnicity #Order #Issues
“Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Islandâ€™s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianciâ€”a paragon of charisma and corruption.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Rhode Island #Islands #Political
“Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.”
-- Philip Gourevitch

#Home #People #Political

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