...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Walk away. Leave her be.

I am a lonely man, ' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy man, and so I asked you why you should wish to visit me so often.

I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...

I'll talk. You'll listen.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

That's a huge part foul man; that's just not cool.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.