We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
It's a mindset, it's all in the mind.
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my hand up and there was satisfaction at seeing my blood, the way there was when I saw the red gouges onmy face that people stared at and turned away. They were thinking I was beautiful, but they were wrong, now they could see how ugly and mutilated I was.