In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

It's always dangerous when boring people think they're creative.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

If you hang around with losers you become a loser

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.