Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.