I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.