Svetlana Alexievich Quotes
Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.
Alexievich, Svetlana. "Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 7 Dec. 2015.
Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared, that is, by the established power structures. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
