Rim Quotes

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.