With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Everything comes down to Dollars

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.