There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

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

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.