Hendrik Hertzberg:

It wasn’t enough this time. But the time is coming.

From the last century:

You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.

Freeman Dyson, from the archive (and also the last century):

That's the kind of thinking that comes naturally in such a place, where 100 years is nothing.

It's very important that we adapt to the world on the long-time scale as well as the short-time scale.

Ethics are the art of doing that.

You must have principles that you're willing to die for.

More recently:

"You Westerners have your watches. But we Taliban have time."