Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.