Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry. . . If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.