“Monsters exist,” wrote Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. “But they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are . . . the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― King Leopold's Ghost
― King Leopold's Ghost
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”
― King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
― King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
“Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?”
― Daughter
― Daughter
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