Buruma Quotes

#1. We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

Jonathan Sumption

#2. Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.

Renate Bridenthal

#3. Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Ian Buruma

#4. To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims, this can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

Ian Buruma

#5. Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.

Ian Buruma

#6. You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.

Bob Dylan

#7. And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.

Hilari Bell

#8. She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man.

Ian Buruma

#10. Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman's shameless grin. Reward if returned.

Whitney K.E.

#11. While passion and determination are attributes that are essential in order
to drive a vision to its full potential, if they are left unchecked, they can also
turn the journey into a faith-based one driven by dogma.

Ash Maurya

#12. Nobody's mind ever remains a blank page, however carefully they are locked away from the world.

Frances Hardinge

#13. The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.

Ian Buruma

#14. You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

Felix Dennis

#15. Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#16. But you can't just believe in Him to be free from your stronghold. You must believe Him. Believe He can do what He says He can do. Believe you can do what He says you can do. Believe He is who He says He is. And believe you are who He says you are.

Beth Moore

#17. Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

Ian Buruma