Sam Bateman’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

I fear this book will finish me before I can finish it

“No ones focused on how we’re all connected. We only think about how we suffer, individually. The poor and middle-class of this country don’t realize they have more in common with us than they do with Westminster.”
“…the rabbit dies, and the fox grieves, for they’re animals of a kind…got to convince them that we’re not their prey. That there’s a hunter in the forest and we’re all in danger.”

“…. It’s a war happening in a foreign land that they can’t even imagine. It’s too distant for them to care.”
“What makes you so sure of that?”
“Because I didn’t… I didn’t, even though I’d been told time and time again how awful things were. It took witnessing it happening in person…. Even then, I tried my hardest to look away. It’s hard to accept what you don’t want to see.”

“History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit.”