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

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.

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

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.

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.

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

I am not pretty, I am not ugly, I am not true, I am not false, I am just me, a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.