“Naturalmente, era mentira que no dolería nada. Pero como los adultos siempre decían lo mismo cuando algo iba a doler, podía considerar esa afirmación como una predicción exacta del futuro. Algunas veces las mentiras eran más de fiar que las verdades.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“Cuando se quiere ser ingenioso, sucede que se miente un poco.”
Source: The Little Prince
“A mentira pode ser mais agradável que a verdade, o povo gosta que lhe mintam. Governar dirigindo a consciência nacional.”
Source: Salazar: Citações
“Para ir decapitando monumentos
hace falta el silencio,
los santones hicieron sus columnas
pero no tienen estandartes.
¿Qué lugar daremos a cada quién
en nuestra historia?
Ya ni siquiera importa,
los héroes están muertos
y cada quien fabrica sus hazañas.
El tiempo es un invento malévolo,
nunca aprendió a creer
en la verdad
porque nació desnudo como los hombres,
y, además, ¿es que existe la verdad?”
Source: Torres y tatuajes
“—A veces, me da la impresión de que todo es mentira —añadí.
—Mira: si todo es mentira, es coge al menos una mentira hermosa.”
“...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”
Source: Machete Season
“So Rwandan history is dangerous. Like all of history, it is a record of successive struggles for power, and to a very large extent power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality - even, as is so often the case, when that story is written in their blood.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“...Five out of 6 children who had been in Rwanda during the slaughter had witnessed bloodshed... Imagine what the totality of such devastation means for a society and it becomes clear that Hutu Power's crimes was much greater than the murder of nearly a million people. Nobody in Rwanda escaped direct physical or psychic damage. The terror was designed to be total and enduring, a legacy to leave Rwandans spinning and disoriented in the slipstream of their memories for a very long time to come, and in that it was successful.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“Never before in modern memory had a people who slaughtered another people, or in whose name the slaughter was carried out, been expected to live with the remainder of the people that was slaughtered, completely intermingled, in the same tiny communities, as one cohesive national society.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course!”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir