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

Everybody works but the vacant lot

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.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

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.