The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

People desire for spices in their life I want some sugar.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.

How much of Africa had been explored out of simple hatred?.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.