Top 18 Breyten Breytenbach Quotes
#1. Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
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#2. Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
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#3. And gradually we will rot like old ships or trees
But keep Pain far from Me o Lord
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#4. In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
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#5. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.
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#6. History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.
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#8. In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
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#9. I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
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#10. The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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#11. It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
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#15. The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.
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#16. It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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#17. The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
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#18. The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.
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