You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

I think we’re not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.