The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any. . . people of any religious faith in this country.
Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days. ' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.