240 quotes found
“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.”
“Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.”
“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.”
“Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.”
“Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.”
“The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.”
“No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.”
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.”
“Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.”
“When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.”
“There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.”
“We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.”
“Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.”
“Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.”
“We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.”
“Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.”
“All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.”
“Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.”
“We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.”
“Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.”
