Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing with righteousness – as at the crucifixion and before and since. This can happen only after we have made a categorical refusal to kindness: to heretics, foreigners, enemies or any other group different from ourselves.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.