“For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.” PeopleThinkingWritingWarSometimesHumanityAbilityGood ThingsAliensHopefullyHatedGoing To War Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.” PeopleHumanityIndividualPrejudice Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.” PeopleAcceptingViolenceSurvivalSpringOkayInstinct Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“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 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.” PeopleWorldCountryVirtueNiceVictimIncrediblesNice People Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“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. I think it can be very revealing how they regard themselves and their relationship or their responsibility to their countrymen. That is vital for us all to know and in order to be able to judge them and evaluate them.” PeopleThinkingImportantResponsibilityJudgingPerceiveInfluentialInfluential People Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“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 minds, even what their rumors are and what their gossip is.” PeopleThinkingMindImportantImaginationExpectationsConcernGossipOrdinary PeopleRumor Author:Jon Lee Anderson
