... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.