
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.”
Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)
"Simone Weil" in The Nation (12 January 1957) http://www.cddc.vt.edu/bps/rexroth/essays/simone-weil.htm
Context: Simone Weil was one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth, or indeed of any other century. I have great sympathy for her, but sympathy is not necessarily congeniality. It would be easier to write of her if I liked what she had to say, which I strongly do not. …I think Simone Weil had both over- and under-equipped herself for the crisis which overwhelmed her — along, we forget, immersed in her tragedy, with all the rest of us. She was almost the perfectly typical passionate, revolutionary, intellectual woman — a frailer, even more highly strung Rosa Luxemburg. … She made up her own revolution out of her vitals, like a spider or silkworm. She could introject all the ill of the world into her own heart, but she could not project herself in sympathy to others. Her letters read like the more distraught signals of John of the Cross in the dark night.
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.”
Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)
"A Knight of the Woeful Countenance" in The World of George Orwell (1972) edited by Miriam Gross, p. 167
“The most explosive book of the twentieth century… I'm not kidding, it explodes!!”
Subtitle of his book ...And the truth shall set you free
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 75
Resil B. Mojares in Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T. H. Pado de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes. 2006. p. 477.
BALIW
Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four
Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within, Broadway Books, NY, 1997.
Source: [Pope John Paul II, 2005, Memory and identity: conversations at the dawn of a millennium, Rizzoli]