When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.

The child is free to live out their own destiny.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?