Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.