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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice. ”
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ”
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business. ”
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. ”
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing. ”
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. ”
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ”
Delay in justice is injustice. ”
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. ”
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. ”