“It is always easier, particularly in what was once a deeply religious country, to erect memorials and deliver sermons than to look the angel of history directly in the face.” — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“It is always easier, particularly in what was once a deeply religious country, to erect memorials and deliver sermons than to look the angel… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“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… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass grave, we… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
