Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. . . . It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.
I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
All I want is for everyone to finally be able to like their life smiling.
Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.