Extrajudicial Quotes

#1. This body of reporting provides an unparalleled glimpse into the shadowy world of extrajudicial assassination that promises to be Barack Obama's most troubling legacy.

Jeremy Scahill

#2. This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

Philip Alston

#3. Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.

Avis Bohlen

#4. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

Rosa Brooks

#5. Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

Caleb Crain

#6. David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.

Patrick Labyorteaux

#7. I'd been declared - over my loud and sustained protests - Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.

Karen Chance

#8. Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Benjamin Zander

#9. Cohen looked at the forest of lances and pennants. Hundreds of thousands of men looked like quite a lot of men when you saw them close to.
"I suppose," he said, slowly, "that none of you has got some amazing plan you've been keeping quiet about?"
"We thought you had one," said Truckle.

Terry Pratchett

#10. My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.

Mike Holmgren

#11. Duty is a concept created by emperors and generals to deceive us into performing their will. Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others.

Tan Twan Eng

#12. To manifest your hearts desires you must be what your heart desires.

Joy Page

#13. Obviously, things work best when parents and teachers are helping kids to become good people - and, better yet, when they're actively supporting one another's efforts.

Alfie Kohn

#14. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

David Abram

#15. I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

Jen Lancaster

#16. If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Henry Seidel Canby

#17. I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

Tony Arata

#18. The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

James Cook

#19. A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

M.F.K. Fisher