That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

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