Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.