# Quote — Véronique Tadjo, In the Company of Men

> What one does is never enough. I don't want this challenge we're facing to defeat us. I want to do my bit, I want future generations to understand how hard we fought to stop the triumph of the unacceptable. (V)

- Author: [Véronique Tadjo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/veronique-tadjo.md)
- Book: [In the Company of Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/veronique-tadjo/in-the-company-of-men.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/veronique-tadjo/in-the-company-of-men/what-one-does

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> Colonizing space with enormous rockets will almost certainly not be a lifeline for them. For if they haven't learned to live here, how can they possibly survive in the distant Beyond? (XV)

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> Humans today think they can do whatever they like. They fancy themselves as masters, as architects of nature.

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> "Go on, get out now. Go to the capital, go to your aunt. The village is cursed. Don't ever come back here." (beginning of I)

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