Quote

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nicholas D. Kristof
Things
Arrogant
Combat
Journalist
Careful
Wording
Notion
Unconcerned
Tried
Readership
Literature
Blog
Trying
Journalists

More quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

Image
Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
Guilt-tripping people does not work they tend to be turned off.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles if it was a woman, she was likely raped if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Image
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas D. Kristof