Ammon Hennacy Quotes

#1. Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

Edward Joseph Schwartz

#2. I wasn't disturbing the peace, I was disturbing the war

Ammon Hennacy

#3. But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.

Dan Santat

#4. If you find yourself easily provoked,
then just change the channel.

Toba Beta

#5. We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.

Sakyong Mipham

#6. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Matthew Kelly

#7. Force is the weapon of the weak.

Ammon Hennacy

#8. I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

Ammon Hennacy

#9. Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

Ammon Hennacy

#10. An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

Ammon Hennacy

#11. A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

Ammon Hennacy

#12. We really can't change the world. We really can't change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!

Ammon Hennacy

#13. Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

Ammon Hennacy

#14. I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life

Manu

#15. There is hope for you yet.
-Einstein the Labrador Retriever via scrabble tiles

Dean Koontz

#16. I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself ... My ideas are my harlots.

Denis Diderot

#17. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

Mitch Albom

#18. A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

Jerry Saltz

#19. An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

Method Man

#20. Let's enjoy this world. Let's enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#21. Depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror. I've

Chris Hayes

#22. I'm human, just like anybody else.

Ben Affleck

#23. Pastor Russell lived in nearby Pittsburgh and said that there was no hell. This was terrible for we all knew that everyone but the Baptists were going there, so to believe there was no hell upset all the countryside theology.

Ammon Hennacy

#24. Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Bill Gates