“Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy's perks, right?”

“But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.”

“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”

“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.”

“She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.”

“Democracy without women in power is not democracy at all.”