Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!’ *
Our answer is more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety.
Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.
What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market libe...
Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.
Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.
Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?’ Mustafa
Anders Behring Breivik was formally charged under paragraph l47 of the Norwegian Penal Code, the so-called terror paragraph, which carries a maximum penalty of twenty-one years in prison, with the pos...
A society gets the graffiti it deserves,’ commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier.
Sadiq pondered the nature of war. Everyone was sure that they had the right to the land and the others should be forced to leave. That they had God on their side while the others were in league with t...
We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all cos...
Through the book, I want to give something back to the community from which it sprang. My royalties for this book in Norway are being donated in full to the ‘En av oss’ (One of Us) foundation. The fou...
Be yourself!’ said Gro. ‘No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That’s the most important thing of all. If you’re not yourself you just can’t sustain it in the long term.
Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But...
In Afghanistan a woman’s longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes’ notion of honor and by the mullahs. Young people have no right to meet, to love, or to choose. Love has little to do...
