192 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. – MARK TWAIN.

What matters to the children’s well-being isn’t so much the level of the family’s wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

Surveys suggest that about one third of all women worldwide face beatings in the home. Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

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.

On average, the deaths of fifteen infant girls can be avoided by allowing one hundred female fetuses to be selectively aborted. The global statistics on the abuse of girls are numbing. It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine “gendercide” in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

Isn’t it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.

People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. – FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, State of the Union Address, 1944.