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.

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.

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.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.