"When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies."

“A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!”

“It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.”

“But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.”

“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”

Source : Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.72, Parallax Press

“He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.”

Source : "The Proof Is In The Putin". barelyablog.com. September 14, 2013.

“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”

Source : "Are We Politicians or Citizens?" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 1, 2007.

“Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.”

“It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.”