Breyten Breytenbach Quotations

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.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

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.

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.

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.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

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.