All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Virtue is not photogenic.

A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.