Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.