Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

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.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.