Ian Buruma quotes
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“Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.”
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“Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.”
-- Ian BurumaSource : 1986 Of Christopher Isherwood. In the New Republic, 4 Nov.
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“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”
-- Ian BurumaSource : "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.
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“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.”
-- Ian BurumaSource : "Europe's traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism put to test after Paris terror attacks". www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2015.
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.”
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“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
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“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”
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