There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. – Nadine Gordimer
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer
Truth isnt always beauty, but the hunger for it is. – Nadine Gordimer
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. – Nadine Gordimer
