By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.