Blood Diamonds Quotes

“When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.”
― Greg Campbell, Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

“At the time thousands of Africans were dying over control of diamonds sold in shopping malls around the world, U.S president Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia, and everyone else was preparing for digital disaster from Y2K”
― Greg Campbell, Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

“In the words of P.J. O'Rourke, war is a great asshole magnet”
― Greg Campbell, Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

“An Ax was raised into the smoke filled sky while the surrounding soldiers pinned him down and stood on his hands. It took more than a dozen blows to sever each arm just below the elbows. The strangest sensation, he said, was that one minute he could feel his knuckles being ground into the asphalt by the soldier's boot and in the next he watched the man kick his arm away and he felt nothing.”
― Greg Campbell, Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones