“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in orde...”

“The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down a...”

“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”

“(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda'...”

“The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get h...”

“To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a mo...”

“No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's”

“I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.”

“Im Verlaufe nicht nur der konomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardinale vlkerrechtliche Prinzip der Nichteinmischung in Gefahr geraten. Besonders gilt dies fr dasVerhl...”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.”

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

“There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.”