... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.