"It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable."
- Mark Kurlansky
"It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like pas..."
"Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou"
"One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible."
"Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked."
"Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer"
"A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory."
"Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past."
"Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too ..."
"There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen..."