I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.
Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.
When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.
You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.