Quotes by Flora Lewis

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

I compare the current era to the industrial revolution. Over a few generations, unevenly but still irresistibly and with great pain, the technological leap from traditional agricultural society brought profound transformations in every aspect of life, not only economic and political but social, cultural and moral.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

I dabble. I'll write about a gastronomic binge, I'll write about NATO, I'll do an interview with Nureyev, I'll do a political piece. I don't know a hell of a lot about anything.

I have been plodding away at this business for a very long time now. More often not so much facing danger, as resistance, disinformation, stubborn deception or just plain indifference that took a certain insistence and determination to overcome.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Like it or not, globalization is here - in some ways. It isn't a global village, nothing cozy and not that much communal about it. But things, people and money, especially money, do move around as never before, and more and more barriers are breached. The porousness of societies isn't even, but it won't be stopped.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.