Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlyin…

- Flora Lewis

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

- Flora Lewis

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

- Flora Lewis

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

- Flora Lewis

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose re…

- Flora Lewis

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

- Flora Lewis

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

- Flora Lewis