Quotes

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. — Wendell Berry

Without wildness, civilization could not survive. The converse does not hold. — Evan Eisenberg

Light can come into this world only as love, and love can enter only by suffering. — Wendell Berry

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, you cannot say, or guess, for you know only a heap of broken images. These fragments I have shored against my ruins. — T.S. Eliot

Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde

Tell me what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver

Politics is really just the art of divvying up the swag. — Will Rogers

The mistake of Anglo-Saxon thought is the subordination of truth and justice to the ideal of peace. Indeed, such a view assumes that the very existence of peace is proof that truth and justice have prevailed. — Stanley Hauerwas

I don’t think you get rid of violence by protesting against it. I think you get rid of violence only if people see that you have a different way of acting, a different way of struggle. — Gene Sharp

How can you say Our Father if you plunge steel into the guts of your brother? Christ compared himself to a hen: Christians behave like hawks. Christ was a shepherd of the sheep: Christians tear each other like wolves. — Desiderius Erasmus