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

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.

... 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.

Time is an illusion.

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Trends of the times be damned.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?