The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the most famous writers, journalists, academics and so on, are not only critical of state policy, but are constantly carrying out civil disobedience and risking imprisonment and often being imprisoned, standing up for people's rights. That's Turkey.

I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.