Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

Be what you want to be, not what your parents want.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.