Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the
freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place for those who love us.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.