Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

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.

Discouragement is your enemy, therefore resist it

In my dream a burning desireLike the lights from a diamondMake my life ever precious That is my love.

We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.