Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

My father had very little formal education.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.