Inspire Dreams, Bir Nabala, Palestine, 2010
Because we need to move forward.
”We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in history; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures in contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of abstractions, of bureaus and machines, of absolute ideas and of crude messianism. We suffocate among people who think they are absolutely right, whether in their machines or their ideas.”
-Albert Camus
Submission from Benedikt Partenheimer, Berlin Germany
Thank you, Benedikt, for this quote from Albert Camus. So succinct and cutting to the core of the why of our anxiety in these times.
From which of his writings did you find this statement?
Neither Victims Nor Executioners (French: Ni Victimes, ni bourreaux) was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays he discusses violence and murder and the impact these have on those who perpetrate, suffer, or observe. The essays were translated into English by Dwight Macdonald and published in the July-August 1947 issue of Politics.
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