I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

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

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

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.