Philip Gourevitch Quotes

“I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.”

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”

“This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.”

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”

“CAME" - Crownless Ambition Must Emerge - Genereux Philip”

“The poem says you only think you’re alive but about to be born your radioactive heliographs mock the moon’s tongue.”— Philip Lamantia, “Fin Del Mundo”

“If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization”

“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.”

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”