That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
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.
The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.