As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.