I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.