The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

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

You can't bank on the outcome.

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

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

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.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.