Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.