I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

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.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

Envy is a surefire party killer.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.