No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

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.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?