The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.

O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.

Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?