Edward Trujillo

“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed. The Atlantic slave trade did not stem from racist hatred towards Africans. The individuals who bought the shares, the brokers who sold them, and the managers of the slave-trade companies rarely thought about the Africans. Nor did the owners of the sugar plantations. Many owners lived far from their plantations, and the only information they demanded were neat ledgers of profits and losses.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“If all the heavens were paper and all the water in the world were ink and all the trees were turned into pens, you could not even then record the sufferings and horrors.”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For

“Those women, her age and a little older, who’d all gone crazy or who were hooking in the Polo Lounge or who were married to real old movie stars and had to look old too, to match. Those occasional men of genius who, like one friend of hers, could cast the right person for the right part and never miss—never.”
― Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage

“Nations,’ he said, ‘which can plan and fight together shoulder to shoulder in the face of such obstacles and of distance and of language and of communications as we have overcome, can live together and work together in the coming labour of the organisation of the world for peace.”
― Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For