I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

People are never free of trying to be content.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable, For truth from reason derivable, And logic falsehood multipliable.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

I think there is something bigger in store for me.