Oblivious, apparently, to the dreadfulness of the situation, they failed to sound the alarm properly and did nothing to intervene.

When impunity for unspeakable acts goes unchallenged, those acts become even more unspeakable.

For all who take the sword will perish by the sword I would probably have swiftly, and naively, answered Impossible! I neither have the ability nor the desire to end someone s life. Without much further thought I would probably have added whoever this person is, and no matter what atrocities they have committed.

For the populists, however, the real enemies perhaps even more nefarious than the immigrants themselves are the cosmopolitan elites who tolerate and even encourage these horrors.

As we try to build this view, and try to educate ourselves about the enormity of our culture, the information that we have to work with is these gigantic numbers numbers in the millions, in the hundreds of millions, in the billions and now in the trillions.

And what you're looking at are possibilities that have to do with the generation of the city as one applies a methodology that uses notions of these multiple forces, that deals with the enormity of the problem, the complexity of the problem, when we're designing cities at larger and larger aggregates.

I believe American abuses of human rights and the canons of civilized peoples that have come to light in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, and the more horrendous abuses that almost surely will come to light later, are not merely the act of aberrant individuals.

Annan's staff released evasive, confused statements. Oblivious, apparently, to the dreadfulness of the situation, they failed to sound the alarm properly and did nothing to intervene.