Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
How shall Integrity face Oppression?
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.
The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
