“We simply must find ways to see each other more clearly. And part of that has to involve collecting and sharing better information about encounters between police and citizens, especially violent encounters.”

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)

Variant: Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)

Introduction to Metaphysics (1953) — a publication of lectures of 1935.

Source: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 155, "Willem de Kooning"

2016, Memorial Service for Fallen Dallas Police Officers (July 2016)
Context: In the end, it's not about finding policies that work; it’s about forging consensus, and fighting cynicism, and finding the will to make change. Can we do this? Can we find the character, as Americans, to open our hearts to each other? Can we see in each other a common humanity and a shared dignity, and recognize how our different experiences have shaped us? And it doesn’t make anybody perfectly good or perfectly bad, it just makes us human.

trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 91
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Context: Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true…From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.