“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
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
