You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

41, you look great. Love what you're doing.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.