Even ivory towers need central heating.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

I'm not saying that we are capable of that horror, but the knowledge of it is probably something that is very deeply part of all of us.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.