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.

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.

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.

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

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.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

You have to be prepared to take a spill.

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.