Criminal quotes

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

What luck for rulers, that men do not think.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

One of the big problems with the conflict resolution field and one of the real challenges is to move beyond its table-oriented view of itself.

One of the reasons we're so fascinated by the Internet, is that it has the ability to eliminate what we call information friction.

Search for Common Ground has done some very interesting things. They've figured out that costs of mass media productions in third-world countries is miniscule, especially given the new technologies, compared to what you'd expect to spend to make it into the mass TV market in the United States.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.