The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

I mean, I don’t want to pass judgment—I just wish my husband didn’t shoot deer.”“Oh, Mel, don’t worry. I’ve been hunting with your husband—the deer are completely safe.

you’re gone andyour unfinished poemlies alone on my desk—empty of tears, I only hope it rains today

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.