17 Quotes by Michael Ventura

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy’s methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Most of us aren’t very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.