One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
. . . We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? How long will it take?
nonviolence first changes the individual.
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'