“Because Beirut was never just a city. It was an idea—an idea that meant something not only to the Lebanese but to the entire Arab world. While today just the word “Beirut” evokes images of hell on earth, for years… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a society that was known for generations as the Switzerland of the Middle East can break apart… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“When my dad died suddenly, my widowed mom couldn’t afford my college tuition, so Morrie and his friend Jake Garber, my dad’s boss, and… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“These alliances began with the most basic blood association—the family—and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because it brings… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that “it” that was being sustained? I needed… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It is fun to be around really, really creative makers in the second half of the chessboard, to see what they can do, as… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Second, in the desert there was no outside mediator or government to enforce laws or to adjudicate disputes in a neutral way between tribes… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“NAZ was founded in 2008 in Minneapolis, and is modeled on Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone. It uses a holistic web of family coaches… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men’s compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly, their insanity… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
