“Like Leontius, the young Athenian in Plato, I presume that you are reading this because you desire a closer look, and that… — Philip Gourevitch Right From Wrong Copy Share Image
“…the war about the genocide was truly a postmodern war: a battle between those who believed that because the realities we inhabit… — Philip Gourevitch Life and death Copy Share Image
“As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world’s powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact,… — Philip Gourevitch Politics Copy Share Image
“...great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the… — Philip Gourevitch Genocide Copy Share Image
“An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?” — Philip Gourevitch Animals Copy Share Image
“Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.” — Philip Gourevitch Politics Copy Share Image
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired… — Philip Gourevitch Auschwitz Copy Share Image
“My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject.… — Philip Gourevitch Books Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to… — Philip Gourevitch Brave new world Copy Share Image
“When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear.… — Philip Gourevitch Fear Copy Share Image
“Colonisation is violence, and there are many ways to carry out that violence. In addition to military and administrative chiefs and a… — Philip Gourevitch Science Copy Share Image
The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all… — Philip Gourevitch Community Copy Share Image
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but… — Philip Gourevitch Absence Copy Share Image
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. — Philip Gourevitch Building Copy Share Image
“So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays… — Philip Gourevitch Responsibility Copy Share Image
“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The… — Philip Gourevitch Books Copy Share Image
“...it occurred to me that if others have so often made your life their business--made your life into a question, really, and… — Philip Gourevitch Life Copy Share Image
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as… — Philip Gourevitch Community building Copy Share Image
“The pygmy in Gikongoro said that humanity is part of nature and that we must go against nature to get along and… — Philip Gourevitch Nature Copy Share Image
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report… — Philip Gourevitch Absurd Copy Share Image
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in the leader's… — Philip Gourevitch Community building Copy Share Image
“But did it have to be that those who were most damaged by the genocide remained the most neglected in the aftermath?… — Philip Gourevitch Rwanda Copy Share Image
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Buddy Copy Share Image
The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just… — Philip Gourevitch Deeper Copy Share Image
