Andre Maurois Quotes
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Maurois, André. The Art of Living. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
The incident to which he referred was Islamic extremist terrorists attacking with assault weapons a group of unarmed tourists killing over 30. Tunisia, although it has a large majority Muslim population, became a secular republic after its Arab Spring revolution. Tunisia's economy is dependent on tourism, which is diminished by the fear of more terrorist attacks.
In Burundi, family land is divided among the male children of a family. The average Burundian woman has 6.3 children at that time, nearly triple the international fertility rate. With this population growth rate, the plots of land for each person inevitably get smaller and smaller over time. At 10,745 square miles, Burundi is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Maryland, but it holds nearly twice as many people: about 10 million. The small plots of land are inefficient to farm and provide subsistence. So the nation was in a crises as there was little industrialization and land was essential for existence for most Burundians. See {35807} and {35809}." Andre Florian Nbasimana
The newly independent South American nations all had terrible problems and although leaders like O’Higgins were democratic by instinct and desire, they had to use non democratic means to survive and keep the governments even functioning. The factions were more than just different political parties but private armies controlled by warlords. See {584187}.
Northern abolitionists were pushing to abolish the Fugitive Slave Act and prohibit slavery in any of the new territories. Southerners were calling for secession and civil war if necessary if the Fugitive Slave Act was not enforced and they could continue to exploit slaves. Webster, to the distress of most of the abolitionists, was working for a compromise. But that had been tried before. It was either slavery or not.
André Maurois was a French author.
