The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.