Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.