Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug and tell them I love them.

When has the pope ever questioned the faith of another private citizen?

Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.

Don't hunt what you can't kill

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.