Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of skepticism towards authority, towards government.