Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president again. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles? Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It’s not biology that kills them so much as neglect. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn’t necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
