Montezuma Quotes

“From that imbalance rose the tragic results of the coming together of two worlds. It was the extermination of an ancient dream by the frenzy of a modern one, the destruction of myths by a desire for power. It was gold, modern weapons, and rational thought pitted against magic and gods: the outcome could not have been otherwise.”
― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, The Mexican Dream, or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations

“No greater humiliation, it seems to me, was meted out to any man than Montezuma; no race was ever more ruthlessly wiped out that the American Indian; no land was ever raped in a bloody and foul way than California was by the gold diggers. I blush to think of our origins—our hands are steeped in blood and crime.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“Do we prejudice our discussion and privilege traditional answers by styling the invaders as "explorers", th einvaded as "Indians", and their war as "the Conquest of Mexico" ?”
― Matthew Restall, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

“It is about something much larger -the pernicious prevalence and insidious ubiquity of traditional narratives that justify invasion, conquest and inequality.”
― Matthew Restall, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History