10 Quotes by Alex Latimer

When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits to hunt aborigines. If you wipe a whole people from the face of the earth, then there’s no one to point fingers at you. It’s just their spirits that haunt you and spirits can’t do shit.

It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language?

Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win — been if some men... go home victorious.

A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win – been if some men... go home victorious.

If untruths become part of our language – untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech – then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language?

It was only in the middle – between the immense and the minute – that sadness seemed to exist.