If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

I've been called worse things by better people.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.