Philip Gourevitch

“This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.”

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”