Congo Came Quote by Adam Hochschild

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott

“Everyone, he knew for a fact, was populated by billions of microbes, and not simply the flora in their digestive tracts. People played host…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Churchill was a big fat cannibal, Leopold was an ugly deadly virus, Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Certainty has killed more people than smallpox.”

— Steve Merrick

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the great limp…

— Aimé Césaire

“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they looked on…

— Albert Camus

“Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too big a…

— John D. MacDonald

“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel…

— Maria Firmina dos Reis

“The mosquitoes around here are so mean - one day I saw one chase a bird into a birdhouse. The only thing that save…

— possibly an Alaskan

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”

— T. Casey Brennan

“Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of hunting.”

— Jack London

“It ain’t your fault to fall prey to a vulture. They find the helpless and wounded. They land, do their damage and fly away.”

— Susan Denning