I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

I love America, but I don't like it.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.