I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectations are and what their concerns are. Also what's in their imaginations, what's in their… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description itself, where you actually realize you're concluding something that is a point of view, that may… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear- old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it was already the onset… — jon lee anderson Copy Share Image
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“with Ernestito riding on the front of his father’s saddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, a wooden launch with a four-berth cabin that… — jon lee anderson Copy Share Image
We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power.… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
