Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.