All Philip Gourevitch Quotes
- The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory… All
- The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are… Absurd
- What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to… Acts
- In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… Administration
- Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a… Aficionado
- Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls… Absence
- Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. Cry
- Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. All
- The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and… All