Turning A Blind Eye Quotes

“Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“What most tormented him was not so much how she'd been left in the coal shed or the stance of the Mother Superior; the worst was how the girl had been handled while he was present and how he'd allowed that and had not asked about her baby - the one thing she had asked him to do - and how he had taken the money and left her there at the table with nothing before her and the breast milk leaking under the little cardigan and staining her blouse, and how he'd gone on, like a hypocrite, to Mass.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Literature is the opiate of the educated masses.”
― Rhonda E. Smith

“In our co-created world we must all pick a side each day between good and evil. Looking the other way will not exempt us from our spiritual accountability.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“To say they are ignoring what is happening at the college would not quite be true, or not quite fair. A few sick strangers--those poor kids, but none from the classes they teach--is only one of a hundred bad stories that must be overlooked every day. To close one’s eyes can be an act of survival.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“everything is silent
everything is calm
from far enough away”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“For more than a generation, writers on religion have acted on the conviction that the way toward inter religious understanding was to emphasize not only the similarities of the world's religions but also their essential goodness. This impulse is understandable. No fair-minded scholar wants to perpetuate stereotypes, often rooted in missionary polemics, about Islam as sexist, Hinduism as idol obsessed, or African religions as satanic. But it is time to grow out of this reflex to defend. After 9/11 and the Holocaust, we need to see the world's religions as they really are—in all their gore and glory. This includes seeing where they agree and disagree, and not turning a blind eye to their failings.”
― Stephen Prothero, God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

“If you think you can build distance, craft an architecture to shield your eyes from the wreckage, convince yourself the violence is far away - then believe this: the same system will one day reach you. What devours us now will hunger for you later - if not in blood, then in silence, numbness, or the slow decay of all that makes you human.
You are not safe in your forgetting.
And we are not gone.”
― Malak Hijazi, The Hajar Book of Rage