Tim Johnson

“In 1928, when field hands went on strike and bananas rotted on the stem, agents of the United Fruit Company in the guise of soldiers slaughtered their families with machine guns, leaving the plaza of Ciénaga blanketed with the dead, corpses that were cast into the sea. The survivors fled south only to be murdered in the Aracataca graveyard before the eyes of a desperate priest. As an infant, García Márquez rested in his cradle within earshot of the massacre. Years later, he was living as a student in a Bogotá boardinghouse just blocks from the Black Cat Café, where Jorge Gaitán was murdered. García Márquez watched as workers poured into the”
― Wade Davis, Magdalena: River of Dreams

“If providence has created the stars and the planets, Man has called the cannon-ball into existence.”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon

“You're probably right about society being in the Stone Age. Anyone not needed in the village is persecuted and shunned.”
― Sayaka Murata

“The lust of conquest, when associated with religious fanaticism, has been the greatest scourge of the human race.”
― William Deans, History of the Ottoman Empire