One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

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.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.

You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.