There’s a consensus out that it’s OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
Living so fully, I can’t imagine what any drug could do for me.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they’re posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
During the ‘ballad’ years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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.
The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don’t sit down and shut up once in a while we’ll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
If you’re gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
Peace might sell, but who’s buying?
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
I’m lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
The search is in the doing.