Tutsis Quotes

#1. Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.

Philip Gourevitch

#2. I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

John Pomfret

#3. The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

Jonathan Glover

#4. Hutu extremists were able to incite genocide in Rwanda in part because years of propaganda had influenced Hutus to view Tutsis as less than human and so dangerous that they must be eliminated from the country.

Rachel Hilary Brown

#5. It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.

Michel Houellebecq

#6. Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Albert Camus

#7. Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.

Stanislaw Lem

#8. Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Jim Harrison

#9. He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Franz Kafka

#10. That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn't. I wasn't big or masculine enough. In my mind, anyway. But Ben could get all agape on your ass, and you'd just sit there like, huh. Agape. Interesting.

Bill Konigsberg

#11. I got my own back.

Maya Angelou

#12. I've read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed a strong belief that it's just dramatic bullshit meant to entice readers.

Jessica Park

#13. Every man's friend is no man's friend.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. In many ways, home is an image for the power of stories. With both, we need to live in them if they are to take hold, and we need to stand back from them if we are to understand their power

J. Edward Chamberlin

#15. Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

George Herbert

#16. Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.

Naomi Klein

#17. Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

Mallory Jansen

#18. We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Herman Melville

#19. Time needs another minute.

Sly Stone