In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.