What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.

Dear Meg, " I said. "I can't be sure about Lityerses. But I think we must try. We only fail when we stop trying.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Attitude is everything.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately.