"Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide."

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago."

"I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics."