Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by David Van Reybrouck

Quote by David Van Reybrouck

“Central Africa was a region without writing, but not without a history. Hundreds, yea thousands of years of human history preceded the arrival of the Europeans. If a heart of darkness existed back then, it was sooner to be found in the ignorance with which white explorers viewed the area than in the area itself. Darkness, too, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Quote by David Van Reybrouck

Book:Congo: een geschiedenis
Create image

Work

Congo: een geschiedenis

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

David Van Reybrouck

Browse famous quotes and profile details for David Van Reybrouck. more

You May Also Like

“The slaughter of dolphins and other marine mammals is no more horrible than captive dolphins performing tricks because it's not just dolphins were talking about, it's also people. Especially children [...] The effect is devastatingly the same because millions of people every year who watch and cheer this spectacle of dominance are in some way also cheering every other form of environmental ravishment. If dolphin is a reference point in our relationship with nature, then when we teach people that it's okay to abuse dolphins, we're teaching them that it's also okay to abuse the rest of nature.”

Animal RightsAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal Activism
Book:To Free a Dolphin
Create image

“So while other teenagers were stuck in classrooms studying textbooks and taking notes during lectures, I was already out in the world, having dived head first into working for social change. I was learning complicated adult lessons in activism, campaign strategy, public relations, mass media, and corporate relations. And I was able to travel around the country, even if that sometimes meant seeing it through the eyeholes of an animal costume.”

HomeschoolingAnimal Activism
Book:Mercy For Animals: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
Create image

“Any attempt to 'soften' the power of the oppressor in deference to the weakness of the oppressed almost always manifests itself in the form of false generosity; indeed, the attempt never goes beyond this. In order to have the continued opportunity to express their 'generosity', the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social order is the permanent fount of this 'generosity', which is nourished by death, despair and poverty. That is why its dispensers become desperate at the slightest threat to the source of that false generosity.”

OppressionGenerosityFood BanksFalse Generosity
Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Create image

“Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight.”

PerspectiveRichelle GoodrichRichelle E GoodrichProblemsRichelleDifficultiesTroublesPlightHardshipsPersonal ProblemsDilemmas
Author:Richelle E. Goodrich
Create image

“You know what our dilemma is? We’re too astute and too bold for Rag, Tag & Bobtail. Our perception moves a million miles a minute, and we don’t just muddle through like most people. In fact, for the most part we don’t even like most people, and that may well have something to do with the fact that we’re not bamboozled by the things that bamboozle them. No, our dilemma is that we’re philosophers. And we’re too bold. But when you think about it, that’s no dilemma at all.”

BoldnessPhilosopher QuotesBoldness And AttitudeDilemmas
Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Create image