Quotes of Joan Baez - somelinesforyou

“ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ”

- Joan Baez

“ That’s all nonviolence is – organized love. ”

- Joan Baez

“ If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ”

- Joan Baez

“ I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. ”

- Joan Baez

“ That's all nonviolence is - organized love. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. ”

- Joan Baez

“ To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ”

- Joan Baez

“ As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. ”

- Joan Baez

“ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Action is the antidote to despair. ”

- Joan Baez

“ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ”

- Joan Baez

“ You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. ”

- Joan Baez

“ If we dont sit down and shut up once in a while well lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. ”

- Joan Baez

“ You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Action is the antidote to despair. ”

- Joan Baez

“ I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world. ”

- Joan Baez

“ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ”

- Joan Baez

“ You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. ”

- Joan Baez

“ Action is the antidote to despair. ”

- Joan Baez
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