The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.

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.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?