““I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out””
![“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets and emotional anarchy that sabotage it.” quote by Daniel Menaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc4/daniel-menaker-45729_bad-luck_he-embodies-this-tension-between-civiliz_2832234.jpg)
![“They just don't know you,' Penelope said, patting her on the hand. 'And they don't know *you*, either,' Lady Danbury quite pointedly replied ... 'I'd say it was their loss ... Not [a loss] to them, but to you, because as often as I call them fools ... some of them are actually rather decent…” quote by Julia Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/98e/julia-quinn-282_decent-people_they-just-don-t-know-you-penelope-said-p_167748.jpg)
![“I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.” quote by Evan Sayet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea4/evan-sayet-23439_america_i-explain-how-america-hatred-and-jew-hat_174352.jpg)