Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.