The dead are dead, and it is our duty and our hope to make a world that it would have been possible to live in.Philip Gourevitch
I know that the scale of the problem has a tendency to make us feel that there's nothing we can do about it. But it isn't so.Philip Gourevitch
Killers do not usually explain why they did it before they die.Philip Gourevitch
Memory is a psychic act of civil war, a perpetual struggle for the narrative high ground.Philip Gourevitch
The central African nation of Rwanda is a landlocked country of seven million people where the overwhelming majority of the population is engaged in subsistence farming.Philip Gourevitch
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.Philip Gourevitch
We live in a world that, for the most part, is constructed as if people were immortal.Philip Gourevitch
Hating is not the opposite of loving; the opposite of love is indifference.Philip Gourevitch
A world where it is always possible to make amends, change your mind, begin again.Philip Gourevitch
To politicize death is to trade on the moral capital of extinction.Philip Gourevitch