“If I have to bet, I am going to bet on those lakes. I am going to bet on the basic decency that is still at the core of this community. I am going to bet on that decency expanding… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“This gruesome and absurd doorstep suicide symbolized for me the mood of Beirut at the end of 1983 and in early 1984—a mood of dashed hopes and utter desperation. The Marines had come to Beirut to project strength, presence, security,… — 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
