Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.