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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/anti-americanism-may-indeed-have-grown-fiercer-than-it-was-during-the/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

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## More by Ian Buruma

> [Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/isherwood-did-not-so-much-find-himself-in-berlin-as-reinvent-himself/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [“It is always easier, particularly in what was once a deeply religious country, to erect memorials and deliver sermons than to look the angel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/it-is-always-easier-particularly-in-what-was-once-a-deeply-religious/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/anti-americanism-may-indeed-have-grown-fiercer-than-it-was-during-the/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/the-question-then-for-western-companies-as-much-as-for-western/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/i-am-skeptical-about-the-idea-that-we-can-learn-much-from-history-at/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/to-isolate-the-revolutionary-ideologues-and-their-killers-we-must/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are typical of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/perhaps-western-civilization-with-the-amsterdam-red-light-district-as/)

[Ian Buruma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-buruma/)

> [“after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass grave, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-buruma/after-all-that-after-the-concentration-camps-in-germany-after-we/)

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