For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.