Suharto Indonesia Quotes

#1. Sometimes, humans were more monstrous than anything else.

Jennifer Estep

#2. No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride that bound every mother, father, and child in a clannish commitment to the hunt.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#3. The force of the wind is like an angry sea. It is freezing. The machine putters through the air. I am floating, the sky flowing past me, flowing through me. The only sound is the wind swishing across the wings.

I am flying.

John Owen Theobald

#4. When we are thinking clearly, we want nothing to do with sin.

John Kramp

#5. Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Leslie Jamison

#6. A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Joshua Oppenheimer