"The piled-up dead of political violence are a……" — Philip Gourevitch
"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 created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd."
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Philip Gourevitch
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9 Quotes by Philip Gourevitch
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Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence…
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Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
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The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry.…
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