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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Hanya orang mati yang membutuhkan musik yang keras.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Keluarga saya adalah keluarga petani miskin, dan kami hidup di bawah pemisahan yang mutlak.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

It is important to remember yourself.

Saya tidak menyebut diri saya seorang Buddhis. Saya adalah roh yang bebas. Saya percaya saya di sini di bumi untuk mengagumi dan menikmatinya; itulah agama saya.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

'Fame' exhausts me.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I never talk about my next project.