Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?
You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever. - Ariel Dorfman
You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
- Ariel Dorfman
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted,… - Ariel Dorfman
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted,…
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out. - Ariel Dorfman
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. - Ariel Dorfman
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, e… - Ariel Dorfman
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, e…
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your … - Ariel Dorfman
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your …
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that la… - Ariel Dorfman
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that la…
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. - Ariel Dorfman
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leave… - Ariel Dorfman
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leave…
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