In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

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.

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

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

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

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.