Ian Buruma Quotes

• Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

  Ian Buruma

  War, Angel, May

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• To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

  Ian Buruma

  Education, Jobs, Majority

  "Europe's traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism put to test after Paris terror attacks". www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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• Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

  Ian Buruma

  Art, Fiction, Berlin

  1986 Of Christopher Isherwood. In the New Republic, 4 Nov.

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• The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.

  Ian Buruma

  Government, Ideas, Numbers

  "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.

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