Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

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

travel is compost for the mind

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.