# Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

- Author: [Tariq Ali](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes

## Quotes

> Mukherjee's account makes absolutely clear that, in order to protect the (British) Raj from a Japanese threat that never materialized, the British state sacrificed the lives of some 5 million people. The war cabinet maintained an attitude of callous indifference. In Churchill's case, the indifference was strongly tinged with racism.

p. 278 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/mukherjees-account-makes.md)

> What accounts, then, for his elevation to a cult figure?

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/what-accounts-then.md)

> One could add that the manufactured love for Churchill, and the uses made of him, came to embody the nostalgia for an Empire that was long gone.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/one-could-add.md)

> ... importance of the Falklands conflict in re-launching Churchill.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/importance-of-the.md)

> One of the worst criminals Europe ever produced was Leopold of Belgium, whose ownership of and brutalities in the Congo led to the deaths of several million Africans.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/one-of-the.md)

> [On the Bengal famine of 1943] Three important books that have broken the wall of silence are Mike Davis' pathbreaking study Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the making of the Third World and works exclusively on the famine by two North America-based Bengali scholars, Janam Mukherjee and Madhusree Mukerjee. There are also innumerable articles, such that the picture we now have is virtually complete. What exactly happened?

p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/on-the-bengal.md)

> The Bengal famine was no natural disaster but 'the direct product of colonial and wartime ideologies and calculations that knowingly exposed the poor of Bengal to annihilation through deprivation'; 'a grievous crime was committed in broad daylight', one that is still unacknowledged.

p. 278 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/the-bengal-famine.md)