Are we like the God of the Old Testament, that we in Washington can decide which cities, towns, and hamlets in Vietnam will be destroyed? Do we have to accept that? I don't think we do. I think we can do something about it.

Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact t…

This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom. At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief …

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indiff…

This is a man who has carried the moral weight of the world for 26 years... turning himself into the only moral reference for humanity in recent years of wars …

It is not much to be able to do violence when you have been simply preparing for it for years and when violence is more natural to you than thinking. It is a g…

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.