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The search is in the doing.
I've never been an optimist.
To love means you also trust.
I was trying to disturb the war.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.
All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.