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.

... 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.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

Every football coach worries about every football game.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.