... the keynote of government is injustice.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

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