Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Everything is in how you are going to handle it. As a lifelong nightclub comic, I'm ready to handle whatever I have to handle.

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

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

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I've never been any good with authority.