Quotes by Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach

South African writer and painter

Lived from: 1939 -

Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 16 september 1939

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  • The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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  • Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
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  • Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
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  • In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
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  • In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
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  • It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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  • It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
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  • The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
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What are the most famous quotes from Breyten Breytenbach?

The two most famous quotes from Breyten Breytenbach are:

  • "The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."
  • "Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War."

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Breyten Breytenbach is still alive and was born in 1939.