Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.
Ammon HennacyBeing a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.
Ammon HennacyToo many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions โ all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselvesโฆ We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.
Ammon Hennacy