Quotes by Joan Baez

• That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
• Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
• I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
• You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
• The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
• Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
• The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
• It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
• Action is the antidote to despair.
• You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.