It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

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.

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.