Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.