One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

There’s the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day – playdates, doctors‘ appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

War settles nothing.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.