Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

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.

Charlotte, Will’s beingvexing.''And the sun has come up in the east, 'said Jem, to no one in particular.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

What matters is like, spreading love.

What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

Anything less than your best dishonors God

In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!