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

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

"What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."