What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.