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 be loved.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.