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.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

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.

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

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.

To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards!

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

The fish is the star of the plate.

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.