14 Quotes by Mark Curtis

Sam wants the job whenever Sven leaves - and the Bolton chairman knows it.

An entire generation is growing up without parents, without teachers, without a future.

If you throw it too hard, there isn't much you can do about it. But, if you throw it too short your team can help you out.

A Guardian investigation concluded that between 10,000 and 20,000 people died as an ‘indirect’ result of the US bombing, that is, through hunger, cold and disease as people were forced to flee the massive aerial assault. An estimate by Professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire, suggests that between 3,125 and 3,620 Afghan civilians were killed by US bombing up to July 2002.3.

The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople – those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the ‘savages’ of colonial days, who could be mown down by British guns in virtual secrecy, or else in circumstances where the perpetrators were hailed as the upholders of civilisation.