I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles. Nicholas D. Kristof More Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof More Quotes From Nicholas D. Kristof Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake. Nicholas D. Kristof suffering earthquakes war Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom. Nicholas D. Kristof style campaigns people You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch. Nicholas D. Kristof literature watches years One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie. Nicholas D. Kristof journalism principles lying The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. Nicholas D. Kristof war children people We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur Nicholas D. Kristof tunes matter might Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home. Nicholas D. Kristof home believe country A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. Nicholas D. Kristof sri-lanka country way The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place, underscoring that we are not lords of the universe but components of it...So when the world seems to be falling apart, when we humans seem to be creating messes everywhere we turn, maybe it's time to rejuvenate in the cathedral of the wilderness - and there, away from humanity, rediscover our own humanity. Nicholas D. Kristof creating forever fall We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field. Nicholas D. Kristof oil israel spring The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined. Nicholas D. Kristof war people years More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Nicholas D. Kristof gun suicide war China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here. Nicholas D. Kristof growing-up children world The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month Nicholas D. Kristof conflict months victim Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. Nicholas D. Kristof half pregnancy years Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking. Nicholas D. Kristof ice block moving Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous. Nicholas D. Kristof band military people The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. Nicholas D. Kristof columns email literature The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. Nicholas D. Kristof writing people travel More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal. Nicholas D. Kristof girl war country
