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“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”
Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,”
Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996. 
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“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.”
Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.
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“Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.”
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“I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.”
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“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”
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“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”
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“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”
Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.
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“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
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“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”
