Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.

You can’t save dollar by dollar to become wealthy.

Circumstances don't come to distract you from the spirit of gratitude

We are the eyes in the darkness

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

I hate flossing, I wish I just had one long curvy tooth. They didn't have to make separations for me.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .