We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.

Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.