Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.