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.

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

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

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

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

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

What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government.